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Individual popularity and activity in online social systems

, 2009
We propose a stochastic model of web user behaviors in online social systems, and study the influence of attraction kernel on statistical property of user or item occurrence. Combining the different growth patterns of new entities and attraction patterns
Ahn, Barabási, Capocci, Cattuto, Crane, Dingyi Han, Dorogovtsev, Freiesleben de Blasio, Ghoshal, Grabowski, Haibo Hu, Harman, Heaps, Holme, Hu, Hu, Jeong, Krapivsky, Lambiotte, Leskovec, Simon, Sinha, Whittaker, Wu, Xiaofan Wang, Yule, Zanette, Zhang, Zhou   +28 more
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Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett, Bonny L. Hartley, Deborah Wallace, Adewale Magaji, Lorraine Smith, Rachel Wolfendale   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dealing with job search reactions: How strength of music preference predicts job seekers' stress and knowledge-skill development

Acta Psychologica
This research investigates the relationship between music preference strength and job search reactions, specifically stress and knowledge-skill development, with career adaptability as a mediating factor. Results obtained using a two-wave data collection
Bin Ling, Xiang Ao, Ziqian Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Music preferences of Malaysian students and KBSM curriculum implications [PDF]

, 2002
Preferences were investigated of a sample of teenage students for ethnic-based and non ethnic related Malaysian music, and the effects of selected listener haracteristics: familiarity and musical training. Ten excerpts of ethnic-based Malaysian music and
Ang, Minni K., Yeoh, Miranda P.
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Preferences of children in grades two through eight in social studies subject areas [PDF]

, 1952
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston ...
Bresnahan, Virginia W., Connelly, Edward M., Craggy, Clarence E., Hillson, Maurie, Kazantis, Julia, MacGregor, Peter R., Wadsworth, Clara, Wiggin, Herbert P.   +7 more
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Musical Preferences are Linked to Cognitive Styles

PLOS ONE, 2015
Why do we like the music we do? Research has shown that musical preferences and personality are linked, yet little is known about other influences on preferences such as cognitive styles. To address this gap, we investigated how individual differences in musical preferences are explained by the empathizing-systemizing (E-S) theory. Study 1 examined the
Greenberg, DM, Baron-Cohen, S, Stillwell, DJ, Kosinski, M, Rentfrow, PJ   +4 more
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of Warm-Up Music Preference on Anaerobic Exercise Performance in Division I NCAA Female Athletes. [PDF]

J Funct Morphol Kinesiol, 2021
Meglic CE, Orman CM, Rogers RR, Williams TD, Ballmann CG.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lessons from primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence school connectedness

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School connectedness is critical to improving students' health, development and wellbeing. Research into primary school students' perceptions of the factors that influence their sense of connectedness is essential for identifying practices that promote success.
Jordana F. Hoenig, Therese M. Cumming
wiley   +1 more source