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BackgroundOlder adults recovering from hip fracture surgery are at risk from poor outcomes that can impede dietary intake, delay recovery and exacerbate comorbidities. Adequate nutrition is critical to recovery in this group, yet acute postoperative intake is poorly understood. M...
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Challenges and opportunities in behavioural skills training for physical activity
We argue that interventions that empower individuals to manage their behaviour play an important role in physical activity promotion and maintenance. Specifically, we focus on training physically inactive individuals to use self-enactable behaviour change techniques (SE-BCTs) bas...
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ABSTRACT Background Spirituality remains a complex and sometimes contested dimension within counselling and psychotherapy practice. Although increasing attention has been given to spirituality in therapy, less is understood about how counsellors experience their own spiritual awa...
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The Reframing Sport for Teenage Girls: Tackling Teenage Disengagement report identified self-consciousness, body image and peer judgement as key factors for girls’ disengagement in sport. However, research on girls’ disengagement in secondary Physical Education (PE) tends to focu...
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Romance changes everything: player engagement with romantic video game content
This study investigates the diverse ways that players engage with romantic video game content, addressing a gap in existing player typologies. Drawing on hundreds of hours of gameplay and a decade of online community observation, we extend research on player classification by hig...
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ABSTRACT This study introduces invisible scaling, a digitally mediated growth configuration in which entrepreneurial firms expand market reach without proportionate growth in internal employment and organizational infrastructure. Using an exploratory secondary‐data design, it exa...
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The (missing) subject in initial teacher education: seizing the remains of the day
In this paper, the novel The Remains of the Day is used as a framing device to explore government policy for initial teacher education in England. Referring to the lack of freedom to ‘act in and with the world’, we draw on Biesta’s work on subjectification and Heidegger’s concept...
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Background Maternal participation in neurodevelopmental research involving neuroimaging and diverse biological samples is essential for understanding prenatal influences on early brain development, yet willingness in low-resource settings remains underexplored. Method We surveyed...
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Abstract To address the career challenges faced by women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) within UK higher education institutions, the Athena Swan Charter was established in 2005 and later expanded to include a broader range of academic groups in 2015. Athena Swan li...
International Journal of Human Resource Development Practice Policy & Research2026-09-230 citationsDOI - Society & Economics
Rethinking entrepreneurial negotiation: from isolated episodes to a processual framework
Purpose This paper addresses fragmentation in entrepreneurial negotiation research by developing a conceptual framework that shifts the focus from isolated negotiation episodes to a longitudinal perspective across the entrepreneurial journey, where entrepreneurs function as centr...
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This tutorial details how an emotion-based resource, developed across several youth co-research projects, can offer valuable insights into the lived experiences of youth co-researchers. The resource is introduced to readers through four steps: 1) Identify prompts and key learning...
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ABSTRACT While debate on responsible entrepreneurial activities for sustainable development is burgeoning, studies examining whether small and medium‐sized firms (SMEs) can benefit from responsible entrepreneurship remain underexplored. In this study, we draw on stakeholder theor...
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Teacher educators in higher education are often encouraged to engage with research to enhance their own subject knowledge and professional practice, improve teacher education programmes, and contribute to educating better trainee teachers. However, research shows that there are a...
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ABSTRACT Whether and why social processes support global HRM integration is an overlooked, yet increasingly relevant performance question in decentralized transnational work environments. Using social capital theory, we conceptualize the social dynamic and behaviors influencing g...
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Breach the Peace: Revisiting Spiral Tribe’s Utopian Techno Future
This article explores the complexities of revisiting, remembering and revising the cultural philosophies and aesthetics associated with the free festival and rave scenes of the early 1990s. The analysis here examines and comments on the rave sound system Spiral Tribe and the mora...
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Debating the Delphi View of Dyslexia: A Response to Metsala, Morsanyi and Colleagues
ABSTRACT Several commentators have discussed the consensus view of dyslexia that emerged from a Delphi survey reported by Carroll, Holden and colleagues. Here the authors respond to the commentaries, agreeing that different definitions of dyslexia may be required for different pu...
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Exercise delays arterial decline in middle‑aged females, yet participation declines with age. We assessed whether 12-weeks of low‑frequency resistance training alters carotid and brachial arterial function in inactive middle‑aged females. Sixteen inactive middle-aged females (57...