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Memories come to the surface: Pavement memorials in urban public spaces

Memorials installed within public pavements are a recent, distinctive genre in terms of their forms, subjects, audiences and custodianship. Through international examples, this paper examines their...

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Memorial planning in Berlin, London and New York

This paper comparatively examines how three major world cities plan for the ongoing development of memorials in their public spaces. The predominant focus is on memorials that have been erected in...

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Does Resilience Predict Recidivism in Young Offenders?

Resilience has been proposed as a protective factor against recidivism and is included for consideration in at least one widely used violence risk assessment instrument. However, resilience is a...

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A multirate controller-observer scheme for fully automatic vehicle control

Magnetic marker-based vehicular positioning systems encounter the issue of speed dependent sampling rates. This paper considers multirate vehicle control design for such intelligent vehicle highway...

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Neoliberal welfare, minorities and tenancy support

Under post-welfarist realignments in neoliberal democracies, the provision of welfare is increasingly conditional on claimants fulfilling certain (behavioural) obligations. Under these shifts, an...

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(In Press) A critical review of the theoretical frameworks and the conceptual...

The clinical decision support system is utilized to translate knowledge into evidence-based practice in clinical settings. Many studies have been conducted to understand users' adoption of the clinical...

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Receiver shape optimization for maximizing medium temperature CPC collector...

Low optical-concentration solar thermal CPC collectors for process heat at 150-300. °C generally use thermal oil as the collector fluid. Thermal oils have low thermal conductivity and high viscosity,...

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Sterols and lipids from Pleurotus florida

Chemical investigation of the dichloromethane extract of the fruiting bodies of Pleurotus floridaled to the isolation of ergosterol (1), ergosterol peroxide (2), cerevisterol(3), a mixture of palmitic...

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(In Press) Strengthening social marketing research: Harnessing ''insight''...

This paper aims to challenge social marketers to extend their research repertoire beyond restrictive 'individualised rationalities' driving reliance on scientifically proven evidence, population data...

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Towards a praxis of sustainability education in universities

Sustainability education has been advocated as an alternative to traditional approaches in the delivery of education in a university context. Scholars in higher education are aware that a...

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Mapping discovery over revealing schemas

In a world of wide-scale information sharing, data are described in different formats, i.e. data structures, values and schemas. Querying such sources entails techniques that can bridge the data...

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The impact of interpersonal style and interpersonal complementarity on the...

Therapist and treatment process variables affect the effectiveness of offender rehabilitation programs. This study examined the influence of therapists' and offenders' interpersonal styles (IPSs) and...

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The nature of police involvement in mental health transfers

During the course of their duties, police regularly have contact with mentally ill persons who are experiencing psychiatric crisis and require some form of mental health transfer. This study examined...

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Toward an empirical conceptualisation of resilience in young adult offenders

As the risk assessment field develops, a growing trend to consider protective factors as well as risk factors of individuals involved with the justice system has emerged. Resilience is one purported...

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Predictors of perceived coercion in patients admitted for psychiatric...

The origins of patients' perceptions of coercion during short-term psychiatric hospitalization are varied. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the characteristics of patients that are associated...

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A sense of belonging: Improving student retention

The purpose of this paper is to explore the causes and potential solutions to, student attrition. With student attrition rates reaching between 30 and 50 per cent in the United States, and over 20 per...

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Development of organizational commitment and value internalization

In this paper we explain the crucial role played by the processes of internalized motivation in the development of organizational commitment. Our research not only shows that the idealized influence...

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(In Press) Selection system orientations as an explanation for the...

We investigate to what extent individual managers operating in a dual leadership structure have different perceptions of how well his/her organization is performing. Using selection system theory we...

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Design and construction of a simple thermoelectric generator heat exchanger...

Solar pond is one source of renewable thermal energy. The solar pond collects and stores thermal energy at the lower zone of the solar pond. The temperature at the lower zone can reach up to 90 °C. The...

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Facebook use by the open access repository users

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the type and implications of user-generated content posted by users of an open access institutional repository (DSpace) on Facebook....

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