Historically, university cultures have been described as masculine in orientation, and the ‘ideal learner’ as male, white, middle class and unencumbered by domestic responsibility. Nevertheless, more recent work has highlighted certain spaces within the higher education sector which, it is argued, are more welcoming of female students and those with family commitments. While there may now be mo...

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

Drawing on a systematic content analysis, this article examines how far television news bulletins with different levels of public service obligations reported the EU and local elections in 2009 and the local elections in 2013. The aim is to compare coverage on the main evening terrestrial bulletins in the United Kingdom (the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) during different types of second or...

In this paper we introduce Virtus, a web-based platform that provides enhanced functionalities to automate the management of users, groups and virtual communities using an expert rule-based system. Virtus supports collaborative learning using a group contract by automating the execution of the rules of the contract. The originality of our work consists, on the one hand, in proposing a declarati...

The present study aims to depict a picture of Greek fathers concerning their involvement in family and childcentered tasks over the first year of the child. Eighty fathers from rural areas with low educational and occupational status and eighty fathers from urban districts with high educational and occupational status were asked to talk about their own perceptions of fatherhood and also their p...

First, Robb seems to miss the point of the alternative hypothesis to sexual discrimination. That hypothesis is that marriage and its asymmetrical effects on male and female career efforts, due to asymmetrical domestic responsibilities and commitments means qualitatively different performance levels by men and women who are married, or have been married. Never married women should be compared to...

The deficits in executive functioning, inhibitory control, and attentional processes that are the core characteristics of ADHD can have profound effects on intimate relationships such as marriage. Spouses with ADHD may be forgetful, disorganized, and distracted—failing to meet their responsibilities or obligations to their partners. They may not attend to or communicate effectively with their p...

A human rights approach is predicated on the responsibility of states to design health systems and implement health policies that are consistent with human rights requirements. However, in the contemporary health landscape, health services are increasingly delivered through private health sector institutions, and governments often lack direct control over some or many components of the health s...

The aim of this paper is to show how speech act theory can be used in systems development as a theoretical foundation for conceptual modelling. With the traditional notion of the conceptual model as an image of reality, the predominant modelling problem is to analyse how the external reality should be mapped into, and represented in, the system in a ‘true’ way. In contrast to this, we maintain ...