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DP7214 Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

STEM and boys

Booth A, Nolen P.
GSID: lrU_tb4j44sJ
A Booth, P Nolen - Labour Economics, 2009 - cepr.org

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from competition. Our subjects (students just under 15 years of age) attend publicly-funded single-sex and coeducational schools. We find robust...

Towards a taxonomy of logic models in systematic reviews and health technology assessments: a priori, staged, and iterative approaches

after-school interventions

Booth A.
GSID: BPyk6EO3AcQJ
EA Rehfuess, A Booth, L Brereton… - Research synthesis …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library

The complexity associated with how interventions result—or fail to result—in outcomes and how context matters is increasingly recognised. Logic models provide an important tool for …

MobilED–an accessible mobile learning platform for Africa

informal learning

Botha A, Ford M.
GSID: NLDKzgGgFpMJ
M Ford, A Botha - 2007 - researchspace.csir.co.za

MobilED is a 3-year international collaborative project aimed at creating meaningful learning environments using mobile phone technologies and services. The outputs were a set of …

Clear‐cut?: facilitating health librarians to use information research in practice

education interventions

Booth A.
GSID: dRy75gEmWFIJ
A Booth, A Brice - Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2003 - Wiley Online Library

In 1999, staff at the universities of Sheffield and Oxford commenced an unfunded project to examine whether it is feasible to apply critical appraisal to daily library practice. This aimed …

Tree species traits but not diversity mitigate stem breakage in a subtropical forest following a rare and extreme ice storm

STEM and diversity

Baruffol M, Both S, Pietsch K.
GSID: VrYhxuCmsQcJ
K Nadrowski, K Pietsch, M Baruffol, S Both… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org

… could mitigate stem breakage caused by a rare and extreme ice storm in a Chinese subtropical forest across a gradient of forest diversity. We used Bayesian modeling to correct stem …

A conceptual framework for implementation fidelity

Science interventions

Booth A, Carroll C, Patterson M, Wood S.
GSID: _fdqbfCGqgcJ
C Carroll, M Patterson, S Wood, A Booth, J Rick… - Implementation …, 2007 - Springer

Implementation fidelity refers to the degree to which an intervention or programme is delivered as intended. Only by understanding and measuring whether an intervention has …

Enhancing information literacy through the application of whole brain strategies

Asset based approaches STEM training

Bothma T.
GSID: Dt4FzfaZ4ScJ
AL De Boer, T Bothma, P du Toit - 2011 - degruyter.com

… education innovation and experimenting with innovative ideas, we opted for an asset-based approach … system, the limbic system and the brain stem do different kinds of thinking. Sperry …

E-LIS-ReLIANT: Readers guide to the Literature on Interventions Addressing the Need for education and Training

education interventions

Koufogiannakis D, Booth A.
GSID: AjML6Ldqr2UJ
D Koufogiannakis, A Booth… - Library and Information …, 2006 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk

… reporting of pubiished evaluations of education and training interventions and a lack of skills in reading and interpreting such reports. … in reading published accounts of evaluations of educational and training interventions (ETIs), making judgements of reliability and...

Evidence-based practice: triumph of style over substance?.

Health information and libraries journal

Booth A.
PMID: 21831224
Health Info Libr J. 2011 Sep;28(3):237-41. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-1842.2011.00949.x. Epub 2011 Jun 27.

This feature examines the success of evidence-based practice (EBP) and the associated Cochrane Collaboration. It seeks to identify critical success factors associated with the way that both initiatives have been marketed. The simplicity of the original message used by...

Guidelines for measuring and reporting environmental parameters for experiments in greenhouses.

Plant methods

Both AJ, Benjamin L, Franklin J, Holroyd G, Incoll LD, Lefsrud MG, Pitkin G.
PMID: 26366189
Plant Methods. 2015 Sep 11;11:43. doi: 10.1186/s13007-015-0083-5. eCollection 2015.

BACKGROUND: The importance of appropriate, accurate measurement and reporting of environmental parameters in plant sciences is a significant aspect of quality assurance for all researchers and their research. There is a clear need for ensuring research across the world...

Evaluating Nighttime Observational Measures of Neighborhood Disorder: Validity of the Nighttime NIfETy Assessment.

Journal of environmental psychology

Milam AJ, Johnson RM, Nesoff ED, Reboussin BA, Furr-Holden CD.
PMID: 28979058
J Environ Psychol. 2016 Mar;45:97-102. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.11.010. Epub 2015 Dec 08.

While there are a growing number of observational instruments to assess the built and social dimensions of the neighborhood environment, there are few reliable and validated instruments; there are no instruments that assess the neighborhood environment during nighttime hours,...

Potential for specific dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers to have a positive impact on cognitive function in humans: a systematic review.

Therapeutic advances in chronic disease

Peters J, Booth A, Peters R.
PMID: 26137206
Ther Adv Chronic Dis. 2015 Jul;6(4):160-9. doi: 10.1177/2040622315582353.

BACKGROUND: There is some evidence to suggest a possible association between calcium channel blocker (CCB) use and a lower decline in cognitive function compared with use of other hypertensive treatments. In particular, there is an emerging interest in the...

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