Background Although training staff supporting people with challenging behaviour in physical interventions has become accepted practice, parents are often left to fend for themselves while managing equivalent behaviours. The study explores parents’ experience of managing severe challenging behaviours, their use of physical interventions and access to training in reactive strategies. Method A pos...

Government and industry are all aiming to obtain online products and services. For this, the role of broadband is pertinent. Using this as the motivation for this research, the aim of this study was to empirically examine the socio-demographic attributes of the residential (household) consumers of broadband technologies in a local community (the London Borough of Hillingdon) in the UK. The stud...

Clause Union Laws require causee nominals to assume the relation of direct object or indirect object depending on the transitivity of corresponding non-causative constructions (Perlmutter & Postal 1974) or in accordance with the language specific rules (Gibson & Raposo 1986) in forming causative constructions. However, the causee nominals in Korean syntactic causatives are nominatively, accusat...

We are reasonably convinced by the remarks in Pullum (p. 182) that the sluicing construction, on which the argument in Postal and Langendoen (p. 177) for the non-CFhood of English is based, is not, contrary to what is assumed there, subject to an intrasentential matching condition. Consequently, the argument does not go through. However, we believe that an analogous argument can be given, which...

Postal voting was established in Germany in 1956. Based on the legal latitude of the national legislator, the Federal Constitutional Court confirmed the constitutionality of postal voting several times. In contrast, the constitutionality of electronic voting machines, which were used for federal elections from 2002 to 2005, was rejected as the possibility to control the essential steps in the e...

1. Introduction By any measure, the communication sector is important. The combined revenues of the U.S. telephone and postal industries are larger than military spending for that country, and almost three times higher than the revenues of the airline industry. (Table 1, taken from Odlyzko (2000), gives further comparisons.) The sector has been expanding for many centuries. The postal service a...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) assigns unique identifiers for postal service areas known as ZIP codes which are commonly used to identify cities and regions throughout the in datasets. Despite widespread use of codes, there challenges using them geospatial analysis social sciences. This paper presents zipcodeR, an R package that facilitates code-level data by providing offline database...