BACKGROUNDː CrossFit TM is a strength and conditioning programme that has gained
widespread popularity since its inception approximately 15 years ago. However, at present …

Although the term Operational Excellence (OE) has been widely applied over the past few
decades, its meaning is still ill-defined. This issue may be especially aggravated after the …

Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, …
Staines provides new readings of Spenser and Milton, as well as of early modern dramatists…

… Jo Staines is an Associate Professor in Youth Justice and Child Welfare at the University
of Bristol; her research primarily focuses on children’s involvement in the care and criminal …

1.— A theoretical analysis of the concept of the Self shows it to be a learned structure, growing
mainly from comments made by other people and from inferences drawn by children out …

This study aimed to:(1) examine differences in physical performance across birth-quartiles
and maturity-status, and (2) determine the relationships among relative age, maturation and …

As the World's dependence on lithium battery technology continues its rapid growth, reserves
of key manufacturing minerals are not forecast to keep pace with demand. Repurposed …

We discuss a general technique that can be used to form a differentiable bound on the optima
of non-differentiable or discrete objective functions. We form a unified description of these …

This research examines the implications of COVID-19 on the relationship between
organisational learning and operational performance in service organisations. By using social …

Having a good understanding of one's origins and history is known to be significant in identity
development. Drawing on a large‐scale online survey of looked after children's subjective …