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The harm that picture books can cause

There is a great concern in Europe and North America about declining standards of literacy in schools. In Britain, the fact that 30 per cent of 16 year olds have a reading age of 14 or less has helped to prompt massive educational changes...
Sep 22,2017

Implementing the cycle of success: A case study

Within Australia, Australian Hotels Inc (AHI) operates nine hotels and employs over 2000 permanent full-time staff, 300 permanent part-time employees and 100 casual staff. One of its latest ventures, the Sydney Airport hotel (SAH), opened in March 1995...
Sep 22,2017

What is a Port City?

The port city provides a fascinating and rich understanding of the movement of people and goods around the world. We understand a port as a centre of land-sea exchange, and as a major source of livelihood and a major force for cultural mixing...
Sep 21,2017

Changing our understanding of health

The concept of health holds different meanings for different people and groups. This change is no more evident than in Western society today, when notions of health and health promotion are being challenged and expanded in new ways...
Sep 21,2017

Absenteeism in nursing: A longituinal study

Absence from work is a costly and disruptive problem for any organisation. The cost of absenteeism in Australia has been put at 1,8 million hours per day or $1400 million annually...
Sep 21,2017

Airports on water

River deltas are difficult places for map makers. The river builds them up, the sea wears them down; their outlines are always changing. The changes in China's Pearl River delta, however, are more dramatic than these natural fluctuations...
Sep 21,2017

Children's thinking

One of the most eminent of psychologists, Clark Hull , claimed that the essence of reasoning lies in the putting together of two 'behaviour segments' in some novel way, never actually performed before, so as to reach a goal. Two followers of Clark Hull, Howard and Tracey Kendler, devised a test for ..
Sep 21,2017

The language barrier

The discovery that language can be a barrier to communication is quickly made by all who travel, study, govern or sell. Whether the activity is tourism, research, government, policing, business, or data dissemination, the lack of a common language can severely impede progress or can halt it a..
Sep 21,2017

Keyless Society

Students who want to enter the University of Montreal's Athletic Complex need more than just a conventional ID card - their identities must be authenticated by an electronic hand scanner. In some California housing estates, a key alone is insufficient to get someone in the door; his or her voice pri..
Sep 21,2017

Green Wave Washes Over Mainstream Shopping

Research in Britain has shown that green consumers' continue to flourish as a significant group amongst shoppers. This suggests that politicians who claim environmentalism is yesterday's issue may be seriously misjudging the public mood...
Sep 21,2017