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Authors and publication practices

Science and Engineering Ethics, 2006
Although authors are usually considered to be the main perpetrators of research and publication misconduct, any person involved in the process has the potential to offend. Editors may breach ethical standards particularly with respect to conflicts of interest.
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Local Authority Size in Theory and Practice [PDF]

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2000
In this paper we develop a model for local authority size that is based on the approach towards local government reform that was used by the UK governments in the 1970s and the 1990s. To do so, we examine the different aspects of costs for local services, the minimum cost size facility used to provide local services, and the minimum efficient size for ...
David N King, Yue Ma
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Medical Practice and Social Authority

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1996
Questions of medical ethics are often treated as especially difficult casuistical problems or as difficult cases illustrative of paradoxes or advantages in global moral theories. I argue here, in opposition to such approaches, for the inseparability of questions of social history and social theory from any normative assessment of medical practices. The
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The enabling authority — Practical consequences

Local Government Studies, 1989
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Prescriptive Authority and Barriers to NP Practice

The Nurse Practitioner, 2004
For decades, nurse practitioners (NPs) have faced a myriad of difficulties as they attempted to provide comprehensive patient care, including pharmacologic therapies. NPs have also struggled to remove constraints on their ability to practice to the full extent of their potential.
Louise, Kaplan, Marie-Annette, Brown
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Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 2017
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (2010) enabled more than 30 million people to have new access to primary care services. On the basis of current utilization patterns, demand for primary care providers is expected to grow more rapidly than physician supply.
Deborah, Dillon, Faye, Gary
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Authors’ Response to Evidence to Practice Commentary

Physical & Occupational Therapy In Pediatrics, 2014
In their Evidence to Practice Commentary, Hoare and Eliasson (2014) presented their concerns regarding our pilot study on the efficacy of constraint-induced movement therapy for infants and toddler...
Linda P, Lowes, Warren D, Lo, Lindsay N, Alfano, Jane, Case-Smith   +3 more
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Police Authority and Practices

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1962
Law enforcement requires a sensitive and wise discretion in police decisions whether or not to invoke the criminal process when law violators are uncovered. As an administrative and moral necessity, the policeman informally judges and settles more cases than he takes to court.
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Practices of Collaborative Authoring with Video Episodes

2003
In this paper we explored collaborative re-use of educational video. The focus is on how to design supporting media in relation to how users jointly constructed a shared understanding of the tasks at hand. We explore the collaborative tasks of constructing collages using episodes of recorded speech, including tutorial dialogues and broadcast talk.
Carlo Iacucci, Helen Pain, John Lee 0004
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The manager as a practical author of learning

Career Development International, 1998
Kolb’s theory of experiential learning has proven extremely popular and useful in management education. However, despite its usefulness it is not entirely unproblematic and, using social constructionist perspectives, this paper critiques Kolb’s model of learning and his image of the manager as a “practical scientist”.
Karel Pavlica, David Holman, Richard Thorpe   +2 more
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