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Faculty Members Selected for Their Dedication to Excellence
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Winthrop will give faculty awards to Stephen Smith and Adolphus Belk Jr. Undergraduates will receive their diplomas on May 9 at Winthrop Coliseum. Faculty member Brad Witzel will be honored May 7 at graduate commencement.
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After Lisbon
Brad R. King
Dec 14, 2010
This article argues that with the full implementation of the Lisbon Treaty - a process due to unfold over the next decade - the EU will become more politically integrated. It develops a model to determine degrees of EU political...
How should we educate children about violence?
Brad Evans
Dec 31, 2021
This paper addresses the pedagogical challenges when dealing with the education of violence for young children. Drawing upon personal teaching experience and wider critical engagements, it makes the case for a broader...
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How should we educate children about violence?
Brad Evans
Dec 31, 2021
This paper addresses the pedagogical challenges when dealing with the education of violence for young children. Drawing upon personal teaching experience and wider critical engagements, it makes the case for a broader...
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'Quantify the invisible'
Brad Millington
Jan 01, 0001
This paper contributes to the literature on the phenomenon termed mHealth through a critical examination of wearable posture-tracking technologies. The paper specifically reports on a qualitative document analysis of promotional...
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Smartphone apps and the mobile privatization of health and fitness
Brad Millington
Jan 01, 0001
This paper presents an in-depth study of prominent health and fitness-themed smartphone apps. Results of the study first highlight the emphasis placed on self-improvement with apps such as MyFitnessPal, as activities including...
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Golf and the environmental politics of modernization
In this critical review we reflect on findings from a socio-historical study of golf’s relationship with the environment. We focus especially on the golf industry’s pursuit of modernization from the early 1900s to the present....
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Winthrop Recognizes Employees for Service, Outstanding Work
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Acting President Debra Boyd received a special service award from the Winthrop Board of Trustees for her outstanding work over the last year. Associate Professor of Sociology Brad Tripp was recognized with the Faculty Student...
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Smartphone apps and the mobile privatization of health and fitness
Brad Millington
Jan 01, 0001
This paper presents an in-depth study of prominent health and fitness-themed smartphone apps. Results of the study first highlight the emphasis placed on self-improvement with apps such as MyFitnessPal, as activities including...
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'Quantify the invisible'
Brad Millington
Jan 01, 0001
This paper contributes to the literature on the phenomenon termed mHealth through a critical examination of wearable posture-tracking technologies. The paper specifically reports on a qualitative document analysis of promotional...
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Mechanical and hydrological impacts of tree removal on a clay fill railway embankment
Seasonal shrinkage and swelling of clay fill railway embankments can disturb the track geometry, resulting in train speed restrictions that disrupt normal operations. Such movements are exacerbated by vegetation, but reliable...
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Symmetric general linear methods
The article considers symmetric general linear methods, a class of numerical time integration methods which, like symmetric Runge–Kutta methods, are applicable to general time-reversible differential equations, not just those...
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The Failure of Copenhagen
Brad R. King
Jan 26, 2012
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today, an issue that requires a global solution. It is for this reason that a UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, with the...
Outrageous
Brad Evans, Julian Reid
Mar 01, 2022
This essay makes a critical defence of free expression through the spirit of outrageousness. Drawing upon the ideas of Oscar Wilde, along with artists such as Frida Kahlo, Francis Bacon, Gilbert and George and Jake and Dinos...
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The datafication of everything
This paper explores the articulations of sport and 'Big Data'—an important though to date understudied topic. That we have arrived at an 'Age of Big Data' is an increasingly accepted premise: the proliferation of tracking...
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