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What influences PhD graduate trajectories during the degree: a research-based policy agenda
(Higher Education (2020), 80: 1011-1043, 2020)During the past two decades, PhD graduate numbers have increased dramatically with graduates viewed by governments as a means to advance the knowledge economy and international competitiveness. Concurrently, ... -
What is the role of self-esteem in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis under a conservative treatment?
(Scoliosis, 2013, 8(Suppl 1):060, 2013)Self-esteem is defined as a “positive or negative orientation toward oneself” or “a feeling of self-appreciation” (Rosenberg, 1965). In AIS literature, there are contrasting results about the relation ... -
What Truth? How Civil Society Organisations Shape the Knowledge Production of Truth Commissions
(Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, vol. 17, núm. 5, 2023, 2023-11-30)This article examines how civil society organisations are able to shape the politics of knowledge production of truth commissions (TCs). The article argues that their capacity varies according to the ... -
When less is more? Resources richness influence on the value creation strategies for new technology-based ventures
(2015-08)This article studies whether resource positions have an influence in the early value creation efforts of technology-based ventures. We complement the resource-based view expectation on the positive ... -
Who Did Spanish Politicians Start Following on Twitter? Homophilic Tendencies among the Political Elite
(Social sciences, vol. 11, núm 7, 2022, 2022-07-08)Political communication has undergone transformations since the advent of digital networks, but do these new platforms promote interactivity and a public sphere with a more democratic political debate ... -
Whole body vibration for older persons: an open randomized, multicentre, parallel, clinical trial
(BMC Geriatrics, 2011, vol. 11, núm. 89, 2011-12)Background Institutionalized older persons have a poor functional capacity. Including physical exercise in their routine activities decreases their frailty and improves their quality of life. Whole-body ... -
Whole‐body vibration training for patients with neurodegenerative disease
(Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012, Issue 2, Art. No.: CD009097, 2012-02)Background Whole‐body vibration (WBV) may be a complementary training to standard physical rehabilitation programmes and appears to have potential benefits in the sensorimotor system performance of ... -
Whose Peace? Grappling with Local Ownership in Sierra Leone
(Peace and Conflict Studies, 2022, vol. 28, núm. 2, 2022)Local ownership has become a basic tenet of post-conflict peacebuilding strategies sponsored by the International Community. However, research on peacebuilding underlines a gap between policy discourse and ... -
Why do students consider dropping out of doctoral degrees? Institutional and personal factors
(Higher Education, 74, 1053-1068, 2017-01)Despite the increasing popularity of doctoral education, many students do not complete their studies, and very little information is available about them. Understanding why some students consider that ... -
Why do they choose their instruments?
(British Journal of Music Education. Volume 34, Issue 2, 2017, 2016-12)Motivation is a key word in the arts and, especially, in music since it conveys collective, as well as individual, feelings. The beginning of musical instrument learning should be based on the student’s ... -
Why travel drawing matters. Connecting architectural design sketching and travel drawing: a case of Le Corbusier's Acropolis sketches.
(2011-07)Through a critical discussion of the role and functioning of sketching in architectural design, followed by the analysis of a set of travel sketches by Le Corbusier, this study has investigated the ... -
Wireless Loss Detection over Fairly Shared Heterogeneous Long Fat Networks
(Electronics, 2021, 10 (9), 2021-04)The quality of inter-network communication is often detrimentally affected by the largedeployment of heterogeneous networks, including Long Fat Networks, as a result of wireless mediaintroduction. Legacy ... -
Women leading the audit process and audit fees: A European study
(European Research on Management and Business Economics, 2022-12-17)This study investigates if a gender effect exists on the audit fees associated with the presence of women in roles closely related to the audit process. The analysis is based on the largest European ... -
Women’s agenda for the improvement of childbirth care: Evaluation of the Babies Born Better survey data set in Spain
(Birth, 2020, 47:365–377, 2020-09-27)Background Public patient involvement (PPI) generates knowledge about the health-illness process through the incorporation of people's experiences and priorities. The Babies Born Better (BBB) survey ... -
Workload Management for Dynamic Partitioning Schemes in Replicated Databases
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Writing at university: are we on the same page?
(Cultura y Educación, 2015, Vol. 27, Núm. 3, 2017-05-08)This study seeks to analyse the characteristics and functions that students and faculty attribute to written genres in Spanish universities, to what extent these representations are shared by both groups, ... -
Writing regulation processes in Higher Education: A review of two decades of empirical research
(Reading and Writing (2018) 31:757–777, 2017-11)In Higher Education (HE), writers need to regulate their writing processes in order to achieve their communicative goals. Although critical for academic success and knowledge construction, writing ... -
Xarxes, accelerometria i anticipació en l’esport dins l’entorn lliure Chronojump
(Aloma, 2016, Vol. 34, Núm. 2, 2016-11)El projecte Chronojump va iniciar-se com a solució per a la mesura del salt vertical a partir de plataforma de contactes. Posteriorment s’hi van integrar fotocèl·lules i encoders. A causa de la naturalesa ...