Education (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Management of bullying in Northern Ireland schools: a pre-legislative survey
(National Foundation for Educational Research, 2008)BACKGROUND Unlike the rest of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland has only recently (2003) implemented legislation regarding the requirement for anti-bullying policies in the Provinces school system. PURPOSE To ascertain ... -
Bully/victim problems in Northern Ireland's schools: data from the 2000 "Young persons' behavior and attitude survey"
(2008)Comparatively little is known about the nature, incidence and correlates of bully/victim problems in the Northern Ireland school system. The aim of the present study was to examine the prevalence of self-reported experiences ... -
Bully/victim problems in Northern Ireland?s schools: Data from the 2000 and 2003 Young Persons? Behaviour and Attitude Surveys
(2009)Mc Guckin and Lewis (2003, 2006, 2008), Mc Guckin, Cummins, and Lewis (in press, under review a), and Mc Guckin, Lewis and Cummins (under review b) have reported that little is known about the nature, incidence and correlates ... -
Internal consistency, reliability, and temporal stability of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire short-form: Test-retest data over two weeks
(Society for Personality Research, 2006)The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire short-form is a recently developed eight-item measure of happiness. This study evaluated the internal consistency reliability and test-retest reliability of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire ... -
Peer Victimisation Scale (PVS)
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)The Peer Victimisation Scale (PVS; Neary & Joseph, 1994) is designed to assess victimization from bullying behaviours at school. It consists of 6-forced choice items, three of which relate to victimization from negative ... -
Bullying-Behaviour Scale (BBS).
(Edwin Mellen Press., 2000)The Bullying-Behaviour Scale (BBS; Austin, & Joseph, 1996) is designed to assess bullying behaviours in school. The item pool for the scale was derived from the Peer Victimisation Scale (PVS; Neary & Joseph, 1994) and ... -
The free will-determinism scale
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)The Free Will-Determinism Scale (Stroessner & Green, 1990) is a 17-item self-report scale with some items adapted from earlier work by Viney, Waldman, and Barchilon (1982). It measures the degree to which an individual ... -
The Santa Clara strength of religious faith questionnaire
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2000)The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (SCSORF; Plante & Boccaccini, 1997a,b) is a 10-item self-report measure. It was designed to measure strength of religious faith, regardless of religious denomination ... -
Youth aggression and bullying: Challenges for pastoral care workers
(Wyndham Hall Press, 2003)A study of over 15,000 6th-10th graders estimated that approximately 3.7 million youths engage in, and more than 3.2 million are victims of moderate or serious bullying each year in the US (Nansel, et al., 2001). While ... -
The topology of WordNet: some metrics
(Masyrck University, Brno, 2004-01)This paper outlines some different metrics intended for measuring node specificity in WordNet. Statistics are used to characterise topological properties of the overall network. -
Topographical proximity: exploiting domain knowledge for sequential data mining
(IEEE, 2005)In today?s mobile telecommunications networks, increasingly powerful fault management systems are required to ensure robustness and quality of service of the network. In this context, fault alarm correlation is of prime ... -
Exploiting network topology in mining sequential patterns from telecommunications alarm data
(2005)Increasingly powerful fault management systems are required to ensure robustness and quality of service in today?s networks. In this context, event correlation is of prime importance to extract meaningful information ... -
Forecasting unstable policy enforcement
(IEEE, 2006-11)Policy-based network management (PBNM) is a promising but not yet delivering discipline aimed at automating network management decisions based on expert knowledge and strategic business objectives. One of the issues which ... -
The Omega Architecture: towards adaptable, self-managed networks
(2006-06)The tremendous growth in ubiquity and diversity of wireless networks render the exploitation of highly heterogeneous next generation networks more challenging. This complexity is compounded by the highly dynamic nature ... -
Sentiment Analysis and the Use of Extrinsic Datasets in Evaluation
(2008)The field of automated sentiment analysis has emerged in recent years as an exciting challenge to the computational linguistics community. Research in the field investigates how emotion, bias, mood or affect is expressed ... -
Sentiment Polarity Identification in Financial News: A Cohesion-based Approach
(2007)Text is not unadulterated fact. A text can make you laugh or cry but can it also make you short sell your stocks in company A and buy up options in company B? Research in the domain of finance strongly suggests that it ...
