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Perceptions of Play: Using Play-Doh to Enhance the Student Experience in Bioscience Higher Education
Lace-Costigan, Gemma - In: International Journal of Game-Based Learning (IJGBL) 7 (2017) 3, pp. 26-37
Playful and kinaesthetic learning approaches are used in numerous early years (birth to 5 years old) learning environments, however studies in HE STEM disciplines are uncommon. This study aimed to explore the use of Play-Doh in an undergraduate anatomy module as a method of enhancing engagement....
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Speculating and evolving in documentation
Bawden, David - In: Journal of Documentation 60 (2004) 1, pp. 7-8
Introduces the first in a new series of articles under the heading “Speculations in documentation”. The initial article, on “Evolution and information”, is set in the context of debates as to the reality and significance of the link between the growth and development of human information...
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Research journal articles as document genres: exploring their role in knowledge organization
Montesi, Michela; Mackenzie Owen, John - In: Journal of Documentation 64 (2008) 1, pp. 143-167
the disciplines of biology, education, and software engineering. By using the expression article genres, emphasis is … the disciplines of biology, education and software engineering. It attempts to show how results can mirror the nature of …
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Author‐rated importance of cited references in biology and psychology publications
Tang, Rong; Safer, Martin A. - In: Journal of Documentation 64 (2008) 2, pp. 246-272
total of 49 biology and 50 psychology authors assessed the importance, reason for citation, and relationship to the cited … references. There were relatively few disciplinary differences, which suggests that citation behavior in psychology may be … comprehensive, profound level of understanding of citation behaviors of biology and psychology authors. It uncovered a number of …
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Interpreting the world across a boundary
David Madden, Andrew - In: Journal of Documentation 70 (2014) 4, pp. 676-686
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between information and boundaries. Life depends on boundaries; but in order to survive an organism needs to make decisions based on an interpretation of the environment beyond its boundaries: it therefore needs information....
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On thresholds: signs, symbols and significance
Van der Veer Martens, Betsy - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2023) 4, pp. 1006-1026
Purpose This paper reviews research developments in semiosis (sign activity) as theorized by Peirce, Eco and Sebeok, focusing specifically on the current study of “semiotic threshold zones,” which range from the origins of life through various nonhuman life forms to artificial life forms,...
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A bibliometric study of taxonomic botany
Walton, Christopher; Morris, Anne - In: Journal of Documentation 69 (2013) 3, pp. 435-451
were collected at random from 47 botanical monographs published in 2009; a Bradford distribution of cited journals was …
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The emergent properties of intellectual capital: a conceptual offering
Nielsen, Christian; Dane‐Nielsen, Henrik - In: Journal of Human Resource Costing & Accounting 14 (2010) 1, pp. 6-27
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the emergent properties perspective from the field of biology …
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Directed evolution in strategy and management sciences
Porath, Amiram - In: Foresight 5 (2003) 3, pp. 33-42
development in organizations. The theory of Darwinian Evolution in biology has existed for a long time and still (with … organization during their life cycle, the evolution of populations of organizations, sectors, etc. Directed evolution in biology … in a natural environment. We will show that by translating the concept from biology into organization sciences, we can …
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Robert Rosen's anticipatory systems
Louie, A.H. - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 3, pp. 18-29
Itself by the author. Originality/value – The topic of anticipatory systems in particular, and methods of relational biology … of relational biology piques the interest of some readers to pursue the subject further.  …
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