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Робочий документ: Вплив COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні: перспективи організацій людей з інвалідністю (2022)
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Sharapov, K., Anderson, D., Burova, O., Polishchuk, O., & Nazarenko, V. Робочий документ: Вплив COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні: перспективи організацій людей з інвалідністю

У цьому робочому документі викладено основні висновки та рекомендації на основі опитування організацій людей з інвалідністю в Україні. Опитування проводилося у травні – липні 2021 року та досліджувало організаційні перспективи впливу COVID-19 на люде... Read More about Робочий документ: Вплив COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні: перспективи організацій людей з інвалідністю.

The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of Organisations of People with Disabilities (Working Paper) (2022)
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Sharapov, K., Nazarenko, V., Burova, O., Polishchuk, O., & Anderson, D. The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of Organisations of People with Disabilities (Working Paper)

This working paper sets out key findings and recommendations based on the survey of organisations of people with disabilities in Ukraine. The survey was conducted in May - July 2021 and explored organisational perspectives on the impact of COVID-19 o... Read More about The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of Organisations of People with Disabilities (Working Paper).

Perceptions of Nursing Students Regarding Clinical Teaching and Learning During COVID-19 at Selected Higher Education Institutions in Lesotho (2021)
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Nyangu, I., & Rathobei, L. Perceptions of Nursing Students Regarding Clinical Teaching and Learning During COVID-19 at Selected Higher Education Institutions in Lesotho

Nursing students and their clinical instructors in higher education institutions are faced with challenges regarding their clinical teaching and learning strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to determine the perceptions of nursin... Read More about Perceptions of Nursing Students Regarding Clinical Teaching and Learning During COVID-19 at Selected Higher Education Institutions in Lesotho.

Sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life history traits (2021)
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Snook, R. R., Brooks, A. L., Holman, L., & Garlovsky, S. D. Sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life history traits

Sexual selection and sexual conflict are expected to affect all aspects of the phenotype, not only traits that are directly involved in reproduction. Here, we show coordinated evolution of multiple physiological and life history traits in response to... Read More about Sexual selection affects the evolution of physiological and life history traits.

Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho (2021)
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Nyangu, I., & Moteane, T. Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho

Background: In Lesotho, cervical cancer is the most common female cancer and leading cause of death amongst women. In 2019, the annual number of new cancer cases was 477 and 346 women died from cancer related complications in Lesotho.

Aim: The aim... Read More about Young women’s knowledge and attitudes towards cervical cancer screening at a selected higher education institution in Lesotho.

Federated Learning for Short-term Residential Energy Demand Forecasting (2021)
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Briggs, C., Fan, Z., & Andras, P. Federated Learning for Short-term Residential Energy Demand Forecasting

Energy demand forecasting is an essential task performed within the energy industry to help balance supply with demand and maintain a stable load on the electricity grid. As supply transitions towards less reliable renewable energy generation, smart... Read More about Federated Learning for Short-term Residential Energy Demand Forecasting.

The Court of Justice in the archives project : analysis of the Van Duyn case (41/74) (2021)
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Munro, R., & Williams, R. The Court of Justice in the archives project : analysis of the Van Duyn case (41/74)

This Working Paper is part of the CJEU in the Archives Project that sought to find the “added value” of analysing the dossier de procédure alongside already publicly available documents relating to landmark EU cases. Van Duyn v Home Office (1974) C-4... Read More about The Court of Justice in the archives project : analysis of the Van Duyn case (41/74).

Motivations of Ecopreneurs: The New Entrepreneurial Paradigm (2020)
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Harte, P., Peisl, T., & Kammers, K. Motivations of Ecopreneurs: The New Entrepreneurial Paradigm

The purpose of this study is to investigate motivations of ecological entrepreneurs, ‘ecopreneurs’ to engage in green innovation, i.e. ecopreneurial ventures for wider gain than solely financial and to introduce the ecopreneur to mainstream entrepren... Read More about Motivations of Ecopreneurs: The New Entrepreneurial Paradigm.

Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis (2020)
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Johnston, L., Malcolm, C., Rambabu, L., Hockley, J., & Shenkin, S. D. Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis

The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need to ensure that strategic and operational approaches
to retain high quality, resilient frontline care home workers, who are not registered nurses, are
informed by context specific, high quality evidence.... Read More about Supporting the resilience and retention of frontline care workers in care homes for older people: A scoping review and thematic synthesis.

The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian (2020)
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Johnston, L., Hockley, J., Henderson, D. A., & Shenkin, S. D. The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian

Care homes collect a large amount of data about their residents, and the care provided, but there is a lack of consistency in how this information is collected. There is also a need to minimise the burden of data collection on staff, ensure informati... Read More about The Development of a Care Home Data Platform in Scotland: Insights from the Care Home Innovation Partnership, Lothian.

Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events (2020)
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Elsden, C., Chan, K., Erskine, P., Helgason, I., Lechelt, S., Osborne, N., Panneels, I., Smyth, M., Warren, K., Terras, M., & Speed, C. Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events

Creative Informatics is a research and development programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together. We are a collaboration between University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier Univers... Read More about Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events.

Contemporary Workplace Ethics (2020)
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McLean, L. Contemporary Workplace Ethics

Series of reflective Learning Papers on Leadership and People Practice published by The Business School at Edinburgh Napier University.
Renowned for its close ties with practitioners, the Human Resource Management Subject Area at The Business School... Read More about Contemporary Workplace Ethics.

Improving the production and evaluation of structural models using a Delphi process (2020)
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Bolger, F., Nyberg, E. P., Belton, I., Crawford, M. M., Hamlin, I., Nicholson, A., Alvandi, A. O., Pearson, R., Riley, J., Sissons, A., Taylor Browne Lūka, C., Thakur, S., Vasilichi, A., & Wright, G. Improving the production and evaluation of structural models using a Delphi process

Bayes Nets (BNs) are extremely useful for causal and probabilistic modelling in many real-world applications, often built with information elicited from groups of domain experts. But their potential for reasoning and decision support has been limited... Read More about Improving the production and evaluation of structural models using a Delphi process.

Recruitment in the Voluntary Sector: Challenges and Opportunities (2020)
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Young, D., & Morrison-Gillies, C. Recruitment in the Voluntary Sector: Challenges and Opportunities

UK voluntary sector organisations are facing intense resourcing challenges in the wake of significant changes taking place in their recruitment context. In this paper, Doug Young reflects on particular challenges being faced by social care organisati... Read More about Recruitment in the Voluntary Sector: Challenges and Opportunities.

WORKING PAPER SERIES PROJECT_2019: Study of knowledge transfer principals. (2019)
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Fascia, M. WORKING PAPER SERIES PROJECT_2019: Study of knowledge transfer principals

The role of knowledge, relative to the knowledge transfer process in a business context cannot be conclusively defined from the literature as a singular entity, but the interaction of knowledge and communication is shown to exist in many forms. Infor... Read More about WORKING PAPER SERIES PROJECT_2019: Study of knowledge transfer principals..

Assessing the basics of knowledge transfer structures. (2019)
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Fascia, M., Sanderson, M., & tan, H. Assessing the basics of knowledge transfer structures

Dominant research streams in healthcare management conclude that knowledge transfer between patient groups is accomplished through instructions and/or socially constructed practices. Underlying these views is the belief that texts and practices carry... Read More about Assessing the basics of knowledge transfer structures..