Environmental issues are becoming more urgent. Biodiversity loss, climate change, extreme events and global pressures on resources place increasing importance decision making about how natural should be managed. Natural capital accounting (NCA) is gaining popularity as a systematic approach to recognise the full value of such soil, vegetation, animals, water, biodiversity. To understand percept...

Abstract Emerging visualisation tools based on eXtended Reality (XR) platforms offer designers new possibilities and benefits, attracting increasing interest from academia industry. However, as the users consumers of these tools, practising designers' perceptions XR need to be further verified they shape tools' acceptance integration in This paper investigates industrial VR using Unified Theory...

For over 35 years Ronald Labonté has been critically analyzing the state of health promotion in Canada and the world. In 1981, he identified the shortcomings of the groundbreaking Lalonde Report by warning of the seductive appeal of so-called lifestyle approaches to health. Since then, he has left a trail of critical work identifying the barriers to — and opportunities for —health promotion wor...

The National League for Nursing (2009) states that nurse educators must commit to diversity in education by reviewing practices that favor and exclude students. First generation college students (FGCS) have a background that may hinder success and require support to overcome barriers in a nursing programincluding mobile device acceptance. A cross-sectional survey of 37 students showed significa...

Technology acceptance in policing is under-researched, yet mobile devices are widely implemented across UK police forces. The paper validates a mobile technology acceptance model (M-TAM), developed in a single police force. It shows that the M-TAM is transferrable to other UK police Forces, and potentially worldwide. The influence of local supervision and fit of technology to roles and tasks ar...