a number of interviews carried out by the author with the permission and co-operation of the Home Office at their only psychiatric prison, Grendon Underwood. Interviews were mainly with prisoners but also with members of the staffThere is an air of authenticity about the whole work. The characters stand out; one has met them> from 'Good Hearted Harry', the prison officer who believed i? people,...

Sustainable development is a main concern of the twenty-first century, i.e., the achievement of economic success and good quality of life requires a different way to deal with the environment immediately. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in our socioeconomic systems, but collectively they are responsible for considerable environmental impacts. The objective of this re...

Dog walking is a popular everyday physical activity. Dog owners are generally more active than non-owners, but some rarely walk with their dog. The strength of the dog-owner relationship is known to be correlated with dog walking, and this qualitative study investigates why. Twenty-six interviews were combined with autoethnography of dog walking experiences. Dog walking was constructed as "for ...

Much of the existing literature in small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance surveys the impact of borrower and lender characteristics on firms’ credit availability, and it has already been established that there is a positive link between the strength of firm-bank relationship and the level of credit availability. In this paper, I focus on what determines the strength of relationship, me...

The last ten years has seen a revolution in the complexity and realism of human behavior models (HBMs). However, the cost of developing realistic HBMs continues to increase as much of the detailed and complex knowledge must be manually encoded to produce realistic behavior. The focus of this project is on reducing the cost of acquiring, validating and maintaining the knowledge used in realistic...

The last ten years has seen a revolution in the complexity and realism of human behavior models (HBMs). However, the cost of developing realistic HBMs continues to increase as much of the detailed and complex knowledge must be manually encoded to produce realistic behavior. The focus of this project is on reducing the cost of acquiring, validating and maintaining the knowledge used in realistic...