An evaluation of Simventure

This paper discusses the value of providing a simulated experience of how organisations work enabling skills and knowledge from disparate subject areas to be synthesised and assimilated in solving complex business proble

Evaluation of 'Advanced Database Management' module

This paper focuses on a discussion on the approach taken in analysing evaluation design for a specific faculty module on enterprise educatio

Evaluation of 'Business Enterprise' Module

This report outlines a process of evaluation for a business enterprise module. This exploratory research investigates the impact of 'contextual' based evaluation of enterprise education curricul

The reasons for attrition: we (still) haven't got a clue

This paper describes a small survey (attrition survey) undertaken to ascertain reasons of attrition and non-response in questionnaire responses from student participants as part of a larger longitudinal survey (longitudinal study). Due to difficulties in retaining participants within the longitudinal study, determining reasons for attrition and non-response became important; mainly. The questionnaire employed in the longitudinal study was developed by the Cambridge Management Institute (CMI) and is widely known as the HEGI instrument or the SPEED network questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to be completed three times by the participants; one pre-test and two post-tests. Following 18 months of problems of attrition, questions were raised about its value and whether it was suitable to be administered in the environment and setting within which we were using it, in traditional semesters in higher education. Therefore, the subsequent attrition survey was undertaken to look at a number of factors that the authors believed were significant in causing the high rates of attrition and non-response. This data was obtained using a very short questionnaire sent to a proportion of the sample originally part of the longitudinal study. The factors deemed to be of potential significance were plenty and are discussed at detail throughout the paper. Predominantly, issues concerning web-based and paper-based survey methods were also of significance as the former becomes more prevalent but raises the question, how do response rates compare with traditional methods? This was a further area of concern for the authors because a change to the survey mode i.e. distribution and completion method from paper to online was reluctantly introduced as a cost-saving measure. This paper will report the results of the attrition survey in relation to the participants’ responses about reasons for attrition and non-response

Student experiences of enterprise education

This report outlines data collected from students across a broad range of subject areas across all Faculties of Leeds Met University. This data was generated in response to a questionnaire designed to obtain information on students experiences of enterprise educatio

Effective stress-energy tensors, self-force, and broken symmetry

Deriving the motion of a compact mass or charge can be complicated by the presence of large self-fields. Simplifications are known to arise when these fields are split into two parts in the so-called Detweiler-Whiting decomposition. One component satisfies vacuum field equations, while the other does not. The force and torque exerted by the (often ignored) inhomogeneous "S-type" portion is analyzed here for extended scalar charges in curved spacetimes. If the geometry is sufficiently smooth, it is found to introduce effective shifts in all multipole moments of the body's stress-energy tensor. This greatly expands the validity of statements that the homogeneous R field determines the self-force and self-torque up to renormalization effects. The forces and torques exerted by the S field directly measure the degree to which a spacetime fails to admit Killing vectors inside the body. A number of mathematical results related to the use of generalized Killing fields are therefore derived, and may be of wider interest. As an example of their application, the effective shift in the quadrupole moment of a charge's stress-energy tensor is explicitly computed to lowest nontrivial order.Comment: 22 pages, fixed typos and simplified discussio

Violence in psychosis: conceptualizing its causal relationship with risk factors

Background: While statistically robust, the association between psychosis and violence remains causally unexplained. Objective: To provide an overview of possible causal pathways between risk factors and violence in psychosis. Methods: A structured narrative review of relevant studies published between 1990 and 2013, found via online databases and bibliographies. Both reviews and empirical studies were included. No restrictions were applied to language, study design, sample characteristics and measurement of psychosis and violence. Case reports and studies about self-harm were excluded. A final sample of 69 studies was used. Findings: The lack of knowledge regarding the causal relationship between psychosis and violence is partially due to methodological aspects of research. These aspects include study design, sampling, operationalization and confounding variables. Moreover, violence is the potential outcome of several interrelated risk factors: demographics, social factors, persecutory delusions, command hallucinations, comorbid antisocial personality pathology, substance use, inadequate insight, treatment non-adherence and physiological factors. Forty-one possible causal pathways between these risk factors and violence are presented. Conclusions: This study stimulates research by providing a theoretical framework, avenues for future investigation and methodological recommendations. Understanding violence in psychosis enhances its prevention and treatment, decreases stigma associated with psychosis and improves the patient’s legal position