Corporate financial distress (FD) prediction models are of great importance to all stakeholders, including regulators and banks, who rely on acceptable estimates default risk, for both individual borrowers bank loan portfolios. Whilst this subject has been covered extensively in finance research, its application international shipping companies limited while the focus mainly traditional linear ...

Information on epistemic beliefs has the potential to enrich feedback to students and teachers, through open learner modelling (OLM). We outline existing OLM applications with epistemic content and ways in which more holistic aspects of learning and development (epistemic beliefs, values, identity cognition etc.) may extend OLM for 21 Century learning. We propose three steps to extend epistemic...

Quality of life, health, and ability are often lost at the same time and most often in one decaying existential movement over 5 or 10 years. This "loss of life" is mostly too slow to be felt as life threatening, but once awakened to reality, it provokes the deepest of fears in patients: the fear of death itself and destruction of our mere existence. The horrible experience of having "lost life"...

Early verbal-memory researchers assumed participants represent memory of a pairs of unrelated items with two independent, separately modifiable, directional associations. However, memory for pairs of unrelated words (A–B) exhibits associative symmetry: a near-perfect correlation between accuracy on forward (A→?) and backward (?←B) cued recall. This was viewed arguing against the independent-ass...

Early verbal-memory researchers assumed participants represent memory of a pair of unrelated items with 2 independent, separately modifiable, directional associations. However, memory for pairs of unrelated words (A-B) exhibits associative symmetry: a near-perfect correlation between accuracy on forward (A →?) and backward (?← B) cued recall. This was viewed as arguing against the independent-a...

Prevalent models of research advocate technical methods to guarantee ‘truth’. They suggest the discovery of a single ‘effective’ way to develop learning and skills through the isolation of particular categories and variables. We argue, by contrast, that holistic research is needed to inform the holistic practice that is pursued by many professionals in Further Education. In order to support the...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to investigate nurses' and care workers' experiences of spiritual needs among residents with dementia in nursing homes. Nurses claim to practice holistic nursing. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge about how to recognise spiritual needs in residents with dementia. METHODS The study was conducted using a qualitative method with an exploratory design. Ei...