Objective: To present a tool to analyse the design of support plans for informal care from a gender perspective, using the plans in Andalusia and the United Kingdom as case studies. Methodology: A tool was drawn up to analyse gender…

The idea that technology can transfer a person to a different environment without any physical movement and create the illusion of interaction with the artificial environment is not new. Scientists and engineers have been dedicating their efforts to its progressive…

A revision of the calpionellid bio-chronostratigraphy in Western Sicily (Italy)
was carried out, in order to update the taxonomy of this group, through the
identification of some genera (Borziella, Longicollaria, Chitinoidella, Dobeniella,
Sturiella, Borzaiella and Praecalpionellites) and species (Remaniella
catalanoi…

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In this paper, a novel model for monolingual Information Retrieval in English and Spanish language is proposed. This model uses Natural Language Processing techniques (a POS-tagger, a Partial Parser, and an Anaphora Resolver) in order to improve the precision of…

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Scourfield, P., 2010. Going for brokerage: a task of 'independent support' or social work? British…

The exclusionary rule which prohibits references to parliamentary materials as an aid to statutory interpretation has been applied for decades in most common law jurisdictions. The House of Lords handed down its fundamental decision in Pepper v. Hart which allowed…

The Workshop of Physical Agents intends to be a forum for information and experience exchange in different areas regarding the concept of embodied agents, especially applied to the control and coordination of autonomous system: robots, mobile robots, industrial processes or…

The objective of this paper is to review the methodological issues that arise when studying violence against women as a public health problem, focusing on intimate partner violence (IPV), since this is the form of violence that has the greatest…

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: O’Brien, N., 2009. Secondary school teachers’ and pupils’ definitions of bullying in the UK:…