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More than just a word: non-semantic command variables affect obedience in the domestic dog (Canis familiaris)

field instruction

Cooper JJ, Mills DS.
GSID: lbK-OIMJ5nwJ
M Fukuzawa, DS Mills, JJ Cooper - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2005 - Elsevier

Dogs were initially trained to respond reliably to 'sit'and 'come'commands, when these were issued randomly in a variety of contexts. Then in a first experiment, the posture of the person …

Introduction: Geographies, histories and practices of informal education

informal education

Mills S, Kraftl P.
GSID: sJz316FGJKkJ
S Mills, P Kraftl - Informal Education, Childhood and Youth, 2014 - Springer

… In some cases, the term refers to the particular geographical contexts in which informal education happens, and which are fundamental to our understanding of the situated nature of informal education. For instance, this volume includes chapters based in...

Informal education, childhood and youth

informal education

Mills S, Kraftl P.
GSID: YD5E39HAeZgJ
S Mills, P Kraftl - 2014 - Springer

… conversations about young people, education and learning. He would like to thank all of the participants who took part in his alternative education research at 59 learning spaces in the United Kingdom, who have inspired an interest in...

Children reading to dogs: A systematic review of the literature

classroom interventions

Gee NR, Hall SS, Mills DS.
GSID: zYhCPVOVrjsJ
SS Hall, NR Gee, DS Mills - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org

Background Despite growing interest in the value of human-animal interactions (HAI) to human mental and physical health the quality of the evidence on which postulated benefits …

Factors affecting response of dogs to obedience instruction: A field and experimental study

field instruction

Mills DS.
GSID: J-g0MIidfkAJ
MD Braem, DS Mills - Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2010 - Elsevier

… Therefore, the aim of this study was first to use a field-based methodology to evaluate the significance of a range of verbal and nonverbal interactive factors, which might influence a dog's obedience, and then to evaluate the robustness...

Insufficient evidence: Mindset intervention in developmental college math

Growth Mindset

Mills BS.
GSID: 1KF8gMmMNDgJ
IM Mills, BS Mills - Social Psychology of Education, 2018 - Springer

… The objective of this study was to consider if teaching growth mindset to a group of college … between growth mindset and passing the course but no evidence to support growth mindset …

'An instruction in good citizenship': scouting and the historical geographies of citizenship education

Non-school settings

Mills S.
GSID: xtO3pVsR5BcJ
S Mills - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2013 - Wiley Online Library

… In doing so, it highlights the complexity of youth citizenship and the significance of non-school spaces in civil society to our understandings … The key contribution of this paper is therefore to interrogate how, over time, attempts have...

What's in a word? A review of the attributes of a command affecting the performance of pet dogs

field instruction

Mills DS.
GSID: UE-NN0xKl8MJ
DS Mills - Anthrozoös, 2005 - Taylor & Francis

The training of dogs usually involves the building of an association between a command word and a given behavior through reinforcement. Whilst the importance of applied learning …

Geographies of education, volunteering and the lifecourse: the Woodcraft Folk in Britain (1925–75)

Non-school settings

Mills S.
GSID: 9mWv6BfjBToJ
S Mills - cultural geographies, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com

This article extends the current scholarly focus within the geographies of education and the geographies of children, youth and families through an original examination of the …

Encyclopedia of case study research

ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions AND Program Evaluation

Durepos G, Mills AJ, Wiebe E.
GSID: CFWAKeDB7cEJ
AJ Mills, G Durepos, E Wiebe - 2009 - books.google.com

Case study research has a long history within the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, dating back to the early 1920's. At first it was a useful way for researchers to make …

Rights of students.

Nursing standard : official newspaper of the Royal College of Nursing

Mills S.
PMID: 3648502
Nurs Stand. 1987 Jun 18;(501):5.

No abstract available.

Material characterisation of nanowires with intrinsic stress.

Nanotechnology

Mills S, Sader JE, Boland JJ.
PMID: 28656901
Nanotechnology. 2017 Sep 01;28(35):355706. doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa7c31. Epub 2017 Jun 28.

When fabricating nanowires (NWs) in a doubly-clamped beam configuration it is possible for a residual axial stress to be generated. Here, we show that material characterisation of metal and semiconductor NWs subjected to residual axial stress can be problematic....

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