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The transformative meanings of viewing or not viewing the body after sudden death [PDF]

, 2016
This study investigates the experience of viewing or not viewing the body for 64 relatives bereaved after a sudden and unexpected death1. Thematic analyses of in-depth interviews reveal the importance of viewing and the challenges in providing choice ...
Lobb, Elizabeth, Mowll, Jane, Wearing, M
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Resilience Practices and Post‐Traumatic Growth Among Sudanese IDPs

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper we examine the resilience of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan who have endured various forms of suffering resulting from being targeted or trapped by militants involved in large‐scale violence. Upon escaping the conflict zones, the civilians exhibit strength, adaptability, and wisdom in the face of various threats to ...
Karina Korostelina, Daniel Rothbart, Beltina Gjeloshi   +2 more
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Shared decision making in primary malignant bone tumour surgery in children and young adults

EJC Paediatric Oncology
Background: Children and young adults needing surgery for a primary malignant bone tumour around the knee face a difficult, life changing decision. This study describes the level of shared decision making (SDM) experienced and preferred by these patients,
Kiki Blom, Peter Bekkering, Marlieke Hagemeijer, Marta Fiocco, Gerard Schaap, Michiel van de Sande, Sander Dijkstra, Bart Schreuder, Ingrid van der Geest, Paul Jutte, Joris Ploegmakers, Hans Merks, Jos A.M. Bramer   +12 more
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
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Implications of Anticipated Regret and Endogenous Beliefs for Equilibrium Asset Prices: A Theoretical Framework [PDF]

This paper builds upon Suryanarayanan (2006a) and further investigates the implications of the model of Anticipated Regret and endogenous beliefs based on the Savage (1951) Minmax Regret Criterion for equilibrium asset pricing.
Raghu Suryanarayanan
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Disentangling geography teacher educators' collective spaces of agency

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Societal trends such as increased accountability, teacher shortages, and flexibility in learning paths affect the work of teacher educators. This study explores the collective agency of Dutch geography teacher educators as they enact the subject pedagogy curriculum within this rapidly changing context.
Eefje Smit, Tine Béneker, Hanneke Tuithof   +2 more
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Reported job satisfaction : What does it mean? [PDF]

We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction.
Claude Montmarquette, Louis Lévy-Garboua   +1 more
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Delay and Cooperation in Nonstochastic Bandits [PDF]

, 2016
We study networks of communicating learning agents that cooperate to solve a common nonstochastic bandit problem. Agents use an underlying communication network to get messages about actions selected by other agents, and drop messages that took more than
Cesa-Bianchi, Nicolo', Gentile, Claudio, Mansour, Yishay, Minora, Alberto   +3 more
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Internationalising the teacher education curriculum: An analysis of syllabi and student experiences

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Internationalisation has increasingly become a key dimension of quality in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes. Although it is recognised as a means to strengthen future teachers' competencies and expand their professional knowledge, it remains underdeveloped in practice.
Nafsika Alexiadou, Mai Trang Vu
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On the Verge of Exclusion: The Unique Psychological Profile of the Threat of Social Exclusion

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past research, often using Cyberball—an online ball‐tossing game with two or more preprogrammed players—showed that being socially excluded produces various negative emotions and lower need satisfaction. However, in everyday life, people may experience the threat of social exclusion more frequently than actual exclusion. Across two experiments
Tiara R. Widiastuti, Hein T. van Schie, Ilja van Beest, Johan C. Karremans   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source