Following the deaths of Victoria Climbié and of Peter Connelly (Baby P) the media has raged about social work competence, the public have expressed dismay and the government has responded with proposals designed to alter practice procedures. Altering procedures gives…

Although we represent other people in terms of both what they look like and how they behave, these two aspects of person knowledge have rarely been studied together. While vision scientists have focused on the processing of faces and bodies,…

The objective of this article is to show a new conception of administration that goes beyond the modern notion, which justifies the profession only from a pragmatic point of view. Neglecting not only the philosophical and speculative possibilities, but also…

A research work on the micro firms in Caroni district, has been developing since 1994. Such study pretends to deepen the theory that let the empiric- philosophical- conceptual and methodological building of a new discipline in education, called Androergology. The…

Apresenta resultados obtidos em pesquisa de mestrado da autora que comparou as tecnologias do microfilme e do digital como instrumentos para preservação de estoques informacionais. O corpus da pesquisa foi formado pelo acervo de três instituições da Região Metropolitana do…

This paper seeks to investigate whether dividend payments possess significant information content capable of causing changes in stock prices in Nigerian stock exchange. Applying the panel model of the Generalized Least Square (GLS) regression which allows for the influence of…

Undergraduates use a wide range of information resources for academic and nonacademic purposes, including web sites that range from credible, peer reviewed, online journal sites, to biased and inaccurate promotional web sites. Students are taught basic critical appraisal skills, but…

There are only a few records for the jaguar (Panthera onca) in Oaxaca, hence it is considered to be a state with scarce knowledge on the species. This study presents an update regarding the geographic distribution of the species and…

We describe an adaptation of the knowledge gradient, originally developed for discrete ranking and selection problems, to the problem of calibrating continuous parameters for the purpose of tuning a simulator. The knowledge gradient for continuous parameters uses a continuous approximation…

Amidst the disintegration of the Qing Empire (1644-1911), men and women in China began to understand their differences in terms of modern scientific knowledge. Why Sex Mattered provides an explanation for the relatively recent emergence of a psycho-biological notion of…