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Postcards from Space [PDF]

Using information from the My Place in Space lithograph, participants will write and/or draw a postcard to friends and family as if they had gone beyond the interstellar boundary of our Solar System, into the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Sick leave in the United Kingdom Post Office, 1850–1908

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses a large individual‐record‐level dataset on sick leave to examine adult morbidity in the United Kingdom between 1850 and 1908. From 1859 onwards postal workers were eligible to receive a pension or gratuity when they retired or were forced to stop working due to ill health.
Harry Smith, David R. Green, Laura Newman, Joe Chick, Kathleen McIlvenna, Holly Marley, Natasha Preger, Douglas Brown, Nicola Shelton   +8 more
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Biology postcard [PDF]

, 2018
Postcard promoting BU Science & Engineering Library staff and services for ...
Mugar Greene Scholars
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High Cost and Low Trust: Insights From Qualitative Commercial Fishing Cost Data in the Northeast United States

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In fisheries management, socioeconomic data, specifically qualitative data analysis, is often underutilized. This study qualitatively analyzed a primary federal data collection effort in the Northeast United States, The Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey.
Elizabeth D. Conley, Samantha Werner, Gregory Ardini, Matthew Cutler, Patricia M. Clay   +4 more
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Postcards from prison: An Auto-phenomenological Inquiry

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2016
This article is an auto-phenomenological curricular exploration represented through the writing of a "postcard from prison". The postcard from prison construct was developed through a series of conversations with the late Donald MacDougall.
Mindy R. Carter
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London Calling: Devolution and the London Living Wage Campaign

Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of devolution in shaping employment relations through a case study of the Living Wage in London. Drawing on a mixed methods approach it explores the rationale and methods by which the Greater London Authority has promoted fair pay despite possessing limited direct legislative power.
Deborah Hann, David Nash
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Do incentives, reminders or reduced burden improve healthcare professional response rates in postal questionnaires? two randomised controlled trials

BMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background Healthcare professional response rates to postal questionnaires are declining and this may threaten the validity and generalisability of their findings.
Glidewell Liz, Thomas Ruth, MacLennan Graeme, Bonetti Debbie, Johnston Marie, Eccles Martin P, Edlin Richard, Pitts Nigel B, Clarkson Jan, Steen Nick, Grimshaw Jeremy M   +10 more
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Embodied Narrations: Video Narrative Inquiry for Meaning‐Making of Learning Contexts

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This text begins with the initial question of how we can narrate in a situated and meaningful way about the processes of teaching and learning, not to repeat what we imagine that we should say and already know, but to be truthful with respect to the issues that affect us and matter to us.
Olaia Miranda Berasategi, Alaitz Sasiain Camarero‐Nuñez, Estibaliz Aberasturi‐Apraiz   +2 more
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Saints and Orphans [PDF]

, 2011
Postcard from Brooke Carstensen, during the Linfield College January Term Program in ...
Carstensen, Brooke
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Does Deposit Insurance Promote Deposit Stability? Evidence from the Postal Savings System during the 1920s

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract We evaluate whether deposit insurance (DI) promotes liquidity by influencing depositor behavior. We use the postal savings (PS) system and state‐adopted DI schemes during the 1920s to examine the effect of bank suspensions on PS deposit growth in pairs of border cities (DI versus non‐DI).
Lee K. Davison, Carlos D. Ramirez
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