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This article discusses the home-field effect in professional team sports and provides further evidence of home advantage in association football as played in the English Premier League. Utilizing play data it employs match-based production function to investigate the home-field effect on within-match performance by home and away teams.
This Special Issue of European Political Science on 'forty Years of European Political Science' is part of the celebrations of the European Consortium of Political Research's 40th anniversary in 2010. The issue is less a celebration of the ECPR, however, than of the evolution and development of European political science in all its facets since 1970. The collection of articles covers: an overview of the past forty years; political science as a profession; the future of the discipline; the role of the ECPR; the organisational development of the discipline; electronic publishing; teaching political science; the relevance of political science, gender and politics; the development of international relations; pluralism in the social sciences; and the changing nature of political science.
Verdonck and Ryan (2008) suggest that as occupational therapists we need to embrace technology and move with the times as we “can no longer afford to be technophobes” (p255). Occupational therapists are using the internet to gather information, to enhance evidence based practice and for CPD (Bodell et al 2009), however it can also be assumed that occupational therapists are included in the increasing number of people engaged in online shopping, social networking, gaming and other online leisure pursuits.
Each online activity can leave a virtual footprint, and a combination of activities creates on online identity for the individual involved. This identity may be revealed via simple methods, for example by ‘googling’ or by more sophisticated methods that allow the searcher to amalgamate pseudonyms for example. Online identity is clo...
Panorama puts Primark's claims that it can deliver cheap, fast fashion without breaking ethical guidelines to the test. Posing as industry buyers in India, Tom Heap and his team find some of India's poorest people working long gruelling hours in slum workshops and refugee camps breaking Primark promises on child labour, working hours and wages. When presented with the results Primark sacked suppliers and announced it was setting up a children's foundation.
The journey through the history of rock music continues with the story of the contrasting fates of two of America\'s biggest, most authentic bands: R.E.M. and Nirvana. Nirvana had their roots in the underground and college music scene pioneered by bands like R.E.M. and the Pixies and this programme tells how R.E.M. also ended up gravitating towards Seattle and how a friendship developed between Michael Stipe and Kurt Cobain.
Robert Hughes' classic series about art in the twentieth century. This edition deals with the aspirations and reality of architecture. Utopian visions rarely work practically and Hughes examines the parallel lines of concrete, towering verticals of steel and planes of glass of modernism in the buildings of Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe and Gropius, which he contrasts with the paintings of Mondrian.
Talk show featuring Shirley Manson of Garbage, Massive Attack and Asian Dub Foundation.
Documentary charting the development of the wartime relationships between the three leaders of the allies - Churchill, de Gaulle and Roosevelt. This programme explains how the relationship between Churchill and de Gaulle began to sink into bitterness and recrimination, and how their very different views of France sowed the seeds of a bruising conflict.
