John Dee, ‘Queen Elizabeth’s conjuror’, as a recent biography has called him, has attracted considerable attention during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries among intellectual historians of the English Renaissance, including historians of science. During the last two decades especially there…

The authors propose how, in the New Society
that the UK government is creating,
we may need to draw on the
principles of cultural traditions
to bridge the gap between the old and the new paradigm.

To support multimedia applications, it is desirable that an ad hoc network has a provision of Quality
of Service (QoS). However, the provision of QoS in an ad hoc network is a challenging task due to its
inherent…

Fading and obstacles constitute major threats to effective quality of service (QoS) delivery in wireless local area network (WLAN) environments.
In this contribution, we investigate the signal quality of indoor and outdoor WLANs over a defined coverage area. We present…

Book review, Review of Jane Dowson, 'Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology'.

As guest editors for this special issue entitled 'Exploring the meaning of responsibility', the authors use the final paper to extend the critical conversation that has run through this journal about the meaning and practice of responsibility. It draws together…

Study of educational experiences and needs of school nurses involved in delivering sex and realtionships education in one Primary Care Trust in England, This paper reports a study of the involvement of school nurses, in one primary care trust (PCT)…

This paper contributes to our knowledge of the determinants of job satisfaction by analysing the effects of employment status (self-employed or salaried employee) and work characteristics (autonomy, variety, task identity, task significance and feedback) on job satisfaction in a sample…

The Workshop on 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 systems: robots, mobile robots, domotics, agents, industrial…

Objective: To portray an information literacy programme demonstrating a high level of integration in health sciences curricula and a teaching orientation aiming towards the development of lifelong learning skills. The setting is a French-speaking North American university.
Methods: The offering…