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On Penny Jordan with Dr Val Derbyshire
No full textIn this podcast, the Categorically Romance Team are joined by Dr. Val Derbyshire and chat the bibliography of Harlequin Presents/Mills & Boon Modern Author Penny Jordan! Penny Jordan also penned names as Caroline Courtney, Melinda Wright, Lydia Hitchcock and Annie Groves
Author survey data reveals changing perceptions of scholarly communication and wider participation in open access.
No full textDan Penny, Head of Insights at Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan, shares findings from the recent Author Insights Survey. The survey data is openly available and offers an extensive look into researcher perceptions and understandings of academic publishing. Few researchers are now unaware of open access. But perceptions of quality still remain a significant barrier to further OA involvement
Investigating missing persons: learning from interviews with families
Get PDFBased on novel research with families of missing persons, this article outlines
important insights into the needs of families and the search related opportunities
they present for targeted police investigative and search activities. The importance
of empathetic and clear communication and liaison pathways between police and
families are discussed along with good practice for police-family partnership
working. The consequences of breakdowns in communications are also highlighted.
Penny Woolnough is a Registered Forensic Psychologist and Lecturer in Forensic
Psychology at Abertay University. She was previously Senior Research Officer for
Grampian Police/Police Scotland for 14 years and is a pioneer of behavioral profiling
for police-led missing person investigations. Olivia Stevenson is Acting Head of
Public Policy at UCL and is an Honorary Human Geography Research Fellow at the
University of Glasgow. Hester Parr is principle investigator for the ESRC-funded
project ‘Geographies of Missing People: processes, experiences, responses’ at
Glasgow University on which this article is based
Penny and Her Marble
Get PDFOne day, Penny finds a marble in Mrs. Goodwin’s lawn. No one is watching, so she takes it and races home. Penny loves how smooth, shiny, and blue the marble is. She hides it in her dresser drawer. Penny see Mrs. Goodwin looking around on her lawn and is worried. Penny can\u27t stop thinking about the marble she took. Penny is so distracted and nervous that nothing is fun anymore. She even dreams about Mrs. Goodwin and the marble! In the morning, Penny decides to return the marble to its spot. When she does, Mrs. Goodwin comes out to tell Penny that she had found the marble in her garden and left it there on the grass hoping that Penny would pick it up. Finally, Penny is back to her normal self again, happy and using her imagination. Penny and Her Marble is the third book in the Penny series by best-selling author, Kevin Henkes. This book is perfect for beginning readers with its short chapters and simple text. Children can read this book in order, as part of the Penny the Mouse series, or they can read it on its own. Illustrations are included on every page spread. The illustrations never take up the entire page, giving readers just a small glimpse into Penny’s world. Parents and teachers reading this book to small children could easily teach them about honesty, applying Penny’s experience with guilt to a child’s experience. Children will learn that it’s always worth it to be honest and good feelings come when people tell the truth
Interactions of Penny-Shaped Cracks in Three-Dimensional Solids
Get PDFThe interaction of arbitrarily distributed penny-shaped cracks in three-dimensional solids is analyzed in this paper. Using oblate spheroidal coordinates and displacement functions, an analytic method is developed in which the opening and the sliding displacements on each crack surface are taken as the basic unknown functions. The basic unknown functions can be expanded in series of Legendre polynomials with unknown coefficients. Based on superposition technique, a set of governing equations for the unknown coefficients are formulated from the traction free conditions on each crack surface. The boundary collocation procedure and the average method for crack-surface tractions are used for solving the governing equations. The solution can be obtained for quite closely located cracks. Numerical examples are given for several crack problems. By comparing the present results with other existing results, one can conclude that the present method provides a direct and efficient approach to deal with three-dimensional solids containing multiple cracks
Rethinking Gender Inequalities in Organizations
No full textIn this thoughtful book, Penny Dick challenges orthodox views of gender inequality. Combining post-structuralist thinking with process ontology, the author presents a novel conceptual approach to rethinking gender inequalities in organizations and management settings.Publishe
Novel Dialogue 1.5: Getting Into Other Worlds: James Robertson with Penny Fielding (JP)
No full textJames Robertson, brilliant author of The Testament of Gideon Mack, and University of Edinburgh's top prof. Penny Fielding beam in from their respective corners of Scotland. Extensive reference is made to (John's madly beloved) James Hogg and to Robert Louis Stevenson, especially his Jack-the-Ripperesque Jekyll and Hyde. The violence that underpins slavery, aye, even in Scotland, and even during the enduringly influential Scottish Enlightenment is dredged up, as is the question of feeling implicated in the legacy of an enslaving system. James sketches a generous theory about what and how a novel signifies: it is simply asleep until a reader picks it up and invests imagination into it. Hints are dropped regarding James's newest novel, News of the Dead due for release in May. And, of course, we learn about his writerly treat
Going out: an embodied and emplaced practice of citizenship for people living with dementia
Get PDFThe current estimate of people living with a diagnosis of dementia in the UK
is 850,000 with over two-thirds living in the community. Supporting people to
age in place is vital as formal care services will struggle to meet the needs of
projected increasing numbers of people with dementia. However, there is a
lack of evidence regarding how people living with dementia engage in their
community. While being outdoors is an important part of living well and
engaging with the community, people with dementia face increased risks
when ‘going out’ compared to people without dementia. One of these is the
increased risk of getting lost and/or being reported missing to police.
Complex cases of people with dementia reported as missing have a high
mortality rate, place a high burden on police resources and can result in
immense stress for the individual and their family. Research on dementiarelated
missing incidents has explored newspaper reports, police records or
conducted proxy tests. Whilst there is research on the lived experience of
missing adults, people living with dementia have been excluded from these
studies. Research to date related to lived experiences of people with
dementia who live at home has focused on how they feel part of a local
community or neighbourhood. Therefore, this research aimed to bridge the
gaps across these two areas of research by examining the everyday practice
of ‘going out’ for people with dementia and their care partners who live at
home. It also aimed to consider how they can be better supported to maintain
the everyday practice of ‘going out’.
This constructivist inquiry employed repeat walk-alongs, interviews and group
discussions with 19 people with dementia and 19 care partners across
Scotland. In this thesis, I present the data under four broad themes relating to
participants’ experiences of ‘going out’: making adaptive decisions to
maintain independence and control; relational agency; feeling part of a place;
and challenges and coping strategies. In addition, I used thick descriptions to
provide in-depth accounts of the walk-alongs with seven participants,
highlighting how ‘going out’ is an embodied and emplaced practice for people
with dementia.
Drawing on these findings, I developed the 3 P’s (practices, people and
places) as a heuristic tool for understanding people’s motives and strategies
for ‘going out’. The 3 P’s puts the person with dementia at the heart of
decision-making in the context of ‘going out’. It considers the heterogeneity of
experiences of dementia and can be used to inform prevention and response
strategies in dementia-related missing incidents.
Empirically, this thesis contributes novel insights to the experience of ‘going
out’ for people living with dementia, understood through practices, people
and places. Therefore, I suggest a shift away from the categorisation and
management of missing incidents for people living with dementia. Instead,
when preventing and responding to missing incidents, we need to shift the
focus away from their dementia specifically and onto the broader person
through the practices, people and places they engage with. The 3 P’s can be
used for future prevention and response strategies for people with dementia
who are at risk of going missing. Theoretically and methodologically, this
inquiry brings a social citizenship lens to the predominantly biomedical field
of dementia and missing research. It also furthers the citizenship-in-and-aspractice
approach in dementia studies through the application of an
embodiment and emplacement lens to the practice of ‘going out’
Investing in penny stocks
No full textDiplomová práce se zabývá specifiky při obchodování a investování do tzv. penny stocks, tedy akcií s nízkou cenou. Popisuje některé rozdíly v analýze a obchodní strategii oproti běžným akciovým titulům. Upozorňuje na negativní stránku této skupiny investičních instrumentů, která je spojena s vyšší mírou rizika. V praktické části se autor snaží najít na základě historické analýzy společné znaky úspěšných titulů a následně je použít při výběru do modelového portfolia. V závěru kvantifikuje ziskovost investice a míru rizika, která je s investicí spojena.Diplomová práca sa zaoberá špecifikami pri obchodovaní a investovaní do tzv. penny stocks, teda akcií s nízkou cenou. Popisuje niektoré rozdiely v analýze a obchodnej stratégii oproti bežným akciovým titulom. Upozorňuje na negatívnu stránku tejto skupiny investičných inštrumentov, ktorá je spojená s vyššou mierou rizika. V praktickej časti sa autor snaží nájsť na základe historickej analýzy spoločné znaky úspešných titulov a následne ich použiť pri výbere do modelového portfólia. V závere kvantifikuje ziskovosť investície a mieru rizika, ktorá je s investíciou spojená.The aim of the diploma thesis is to show the specifics of trading and investing in the low-priced stocks called “penny stocks”. It describes different approaches in analysis and trading strategy of these stocks and regular shares. Potential investors should be aware of higher risk, when they invest in these investment instruments. In the practical part of thesis, the author tries to find the common features of successful titles based on the historical analysis and use these findings to model an investment portfolio. At the end, author quantifies profitability of the investment and level of risk associated with the investment
Penny-shaped crack propagation in spallation of Zr-BMGs
No full textTypical penny-shaped microcracks at their propagating in spallation of Zr-based bulk metallic glass (Zr-BMG) samples were captured by a specially designed plate impact technique. Based on the morphology and stress environment of the microcrack, a damaged zone or propagation zone around the crack tips, similar to the cohesive zone in classical fracture theories, is applied. Especially the scale of such a damaged zone represents a scale of the crack propagation. Its fast propagation would quickly bring a longer crack or cause cracks coalesce to form another longer one. The estimated propagation scales of microcracks are reasonable compared with what occurred in the Zr-BMG samples
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