Feedback of fracture risk based on bone mineral density (BMD) is an under-explored potential osteoporosis education intervention. We performed a randomised controlled trial of either an osteoporosis information leaflet or small group education (the Osteoporosis Prevention and Self-Management Course (OPSMC)), combined with individualised fracture risk feedback in premenopausal women over two yea...

This article reviews the extant research on the relationship between students and teachers in higher education across three main areas: the quality of this relationship, its consequences and its antecedents. The weaknesses and gaps in prior research are highlighted and the importance of addressing the multi-dimensional and context-bound nature of teacher-student relationships is proposed. A pos...

In line with the conference theme for 2013, this paper introduces a research project that is seeking to ‘defragment’ research dealing with player experiences. Located at an intersection between humanities, social sciences and computer sciences, our research aims to achieve greater receptiveness for accounts of games that emphasise “the relationship between the structure of a game and the way pe...

Asian Americans represent the fastest- growing population in the United States (Le 2010). At the same time, there is evidence that problematic drinking rates are increasing among young-adult Asian Americans (Grant et al. 2004). Accordingly, it is essential to understand the etiological determinants and mechanisms of risk that may help explain this growth in problematic alcohol use among this gr...

the religious jurisprudence laws are one of the issues of religious rules and principles which can be researched from two aspects: the first aspect is that the available laws should be restudied or some new rules should be researched and the second aspect is that from the outside viewpoint the religious jurisprudence law should be researched and the philosophy of the laws should be compiled. th...

Abstract This article responds to calls for IB researchers study a greater diversity of international business (IB) phenomena in order generate theoretical insights about empirical settings that are under-represented the scholarly literature. While this objective is consistent with strengths qualitative research methods, novel not always well aligned methods have been developed better-researche...