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BACCN Dragon's Den 2018

Nursing in Critical CareVolume 23, Issue 3 p. 160-160 News BACCN Dragon's Den 2018 First published: 24 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.7_12351Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume23, Issue3May 2018Pages 160-160 RelatedInformation

BACCN Dragon's Den 2018 – Apply now!

Nursing in Critical CareVolume 23, Issue 2 p. 108-108 News BACCN Dragon's Den 2018 – Apply now! First published: 27 February 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.1_12342Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume23, Issue2March 2018Pages 108-108 RelatedInformation

The Developing World as the Dragon's Den: Assessing the Role of Environmental Factors in Chinese Development Finance

To what extent are decisions regarding Chinese investment in the developing world motivated by environmental factors? A considerable body of work has explored the reasons why China has made a major push to become the lender of choice among developing countries. However, comparatively less scholarly effort has been deployed to explain variation in Chinese investment decisions. In an attempt to fill this gap, this paper presents an empirical test of the hypothesis that China deliberately seeks to invest in countries with poor environmental records and lax environmental protections. Drawing upon project- and country-level foreign assistance data regarding investments made by China’s two policy banks (China Development Bank and Export-Import Bank of China) in Africa and Latin America during 2013 and 2014, this paper reports the findings of a statistical analysis that assesses the explanatory potential of de facto and de jure measures of environmental performance. The results of the study lead to several policy recommendations for China, Western donors, and developing countries struggling to accommodate the often-competing demands of environmental protection and economic development.

Reel Entrepreneurs: Illustrating Entrepreneurship with Feature Films

Using feature and documentary films as teaching and learning resources has found wide use in a variety of disciplines, including psychiatry, history, anthropology and cultural studies, law, medicine, management and in corporate training programs. The growing interest in entrepreneurship is also noteworthy and a number of television reality shows such as Dragon's Den or Shark Tank feature entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas to win investment financing from a panel of venture capitalists This paper explores one form of experiential learning, the use of films as a problem-based learning approach. Students are guided via an assisted walk- through in which the problem solution is gradually revealed. Even though their role as observers is mostly passive, the learning process is enforced through emotional responses to the movie characters and twists and turns of the dramatic plot. That emotional enforcement increases knowledge retention rates and falls under the social-emotional learning category.

“Retail Therapy in the Dragon's Den”: Neoliberalism and Affective Labour in the Popular Culture of Ireland's Financial Crisis

A range of scholars embrace the concept of economic subjectivity in their analysis of relations of economic power and knowledge. They tend to do so, however, in a way that focuses on the inculcation of norms of individual accountability and self-empowerment. Addressing cases drawn from Irish ‘Reality TV’ programming in the context of the current financial crisis, this article seeks to expand our understanding of the stakes of economic subjectification by looking at the importance Reality TV also ascribes to capacities of affective labour. The article borrows from Foucault, as well as several autonomist Marxist sources, to make an argument that these cases indicate not only the subsumption of a wide swathe of social life into the domain of neoliberal governmentality but also the self-conscious turn towards affective labour as a way of refloating the Irish economy. Such a move is significant insofar as it suggests the reinvestment of subjects in a regime of valorisation that has proven to be emotionally and financially oppressive, not to mention unstable, all at a time when the capacity of the institutions of the Irish state to equitably distribute social wealth has been called into question.

In the Dragon's Den: African Traders in Guangzhou

A growing literature studies the Chinese diasporas in Africa, involved in the import and distribution of manufactured goods across the continent, identifying their economic and social strategies and their interactions with African urban and political life. In contrast, the counter-flow of African private traders to China has been relatively little studied, yet is part of significant changes in African economies and societies, and creates new interactions in Chinese cities. The commerce in which they have engaged since the introduction of the ‘Open Door’ policy and the subsequent rapid rise in bilateral trade has been undertaken through not only a period of booming international trade, but also a fuel crisis and a world financial crisis in 2008. This article explores the African diaspora in Guangzhou, China's major export hub. Drawing on ongoing work by the authors begun in 2005, it examines how the Guangzhou–Africa trade has changed over the period, what strategies have been adopted by migrants at the Guangzhou end of the value chain, and how their perceptions of their migration, their migrant community and their host city (and its perceptions of them) have changed over time. Findings are theorised in relation to grass-roots transnationalism.

Management focus: Staff enter the Dragon's Den

Nursery WorldVol. 2011, No. 1 FeatureManagement focus: Staff enter the Dragon's DenKaren FauxKaren FauxSearch for more papers by this authorKaren FauxPublished Online:4 Mar 2014https://doi.org/10.12968/nuwa.2011.18.1.1095698AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail View articleAbstractWould your nursery's employees deserve a little extra investment? Karen Faux hears about an incentive inspired by popular television. FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails 1 January 2011Volume 2011Issue 1ISSN (print): 0029-6422ISSN (online): 2059-9358 Metrics History Published online 4 March 2014 Published in print 1 January 2011 Information© MA Education Ltd

Our first experience of an ethics committee: entering the Dragon's Den

A recent editorial in the BMJ proposes that undergraduate researchers face significant barriers in the form of ethics and NHS research governance approval procedures which are bureaucratic, excessive, and de-motivating.1 As medical students who had to negotiate the system for our Primary Healthcare intercalated BSc2 this academic year, we could not agree more. In addition to the unnecessary red-tape involved, our very first experiences of the procedure were frankly distressing and demoralising. Our account should serve as a timely reminder of why fledgling researchers may be put off in pursuing their interests in fields which are already starting to suffer. We were called to our ethics meeting on a particularly cold February evening; perhaps the weather should have forecast the bitter encounter …

In the dragon's den: a response to the meta‐analysis forum contributions

Secondary analysis of previously published data has a long tradition in ecological science and is widely and successfully practiced as a means of efficiently address ing new questions and hypotheses. Meta-analysis is, in essence, the class of such analyses in which the findings of multiple primary studies are subject to further statistical analysis of emergent outcomes, and is a more recent practice within ecology. I recognize that this is a loose definition of (Ellison 2010, Gur evitch and Mengersen 2010) but continue to refer to the studies I critique using this common broader usage. Owing to the apparent power of such synthetic analyses, papers can be highly influential (Mittel bach 2010). This forum, together with other recent critical assessments (e.g., Englund et al. 1999, Gates 2002), demonstrates that there are good reasons to call for great care, improved rigor and transparency in the use of meta-analysis tools in ecology. However, in the article that initiated this forum exchange (Whittaker 2010), all the specific criticisms I made were restricted to recent meta-analyses of just one problem, which concerns the form of the species richness-productivity relationship (SRPR) in plants. In this brief response to the seven other contributions, I retain this focus while aiming to resolve several misconstructions of points made in my paper, and to comment on a few key points of disagreement regarding analyses of the SRPR. Use of proxies.?First, there have been relatively few studies that have specifically set out to gather data to determine the form of the SRPR and so, in order to increase the power of analysis and refine the questions asked, those undertaking meta-analyses have sought other data sets that were initially gathered for different purposes. There are many published papers providing diversity data, but few that provide direct measurements of productivity, which is a difficult property to estimate accurately. Hence the reliance in Mittelbach et al. (2001), P?rtel et al. (2007), and Laanisto et al. (2008)

In the Dragon's den: a response to the meta-analysis forum contributions

In the Dragon's den: a response to the meta-analysis forum contributions

Follow your dreams

Rachel Elnaugh rose to fame as one of the fearsome dragons on the popular show Dragon's Den. Nick Smurthwaite finds out about her schooldays