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Sociological Imagination as Social Critique: Interrogating the ‘Global Economic Crisis’ (2014)
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Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan (2014)
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Research on informal financial institutions in transition economies is scant. This study investigates behaviour of urban money lenders in Uzbekistan. Money lending in Uzbekistan is a relatively new business which emerged mostly in response to targete... Read More about Informal credit institutions in transition countries: A study of urban money lenders in post-communist Uzbekistan.

Look at those two!: The precuneus role in unattended third-person perspective of social interactions (2014)
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© 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.. Human beings often observe other people's social interactions without being a part of them. Whereas the implications of some brain regions (e.g. amygdala) have been extensively examined, the implication of the precuneu... Read More about Look at those two!: The precuneus role in unattended third-person perspective of social interactions.

Parental behaviour in paediatric chronic pain: A qualitative observational study (2014)
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Objectives: Parental behaviour appears to influence the adjustment of children with chronic pain. However, research in this area has failed to produce consistent evidence. Studies have tended to rely on self-report measures derived from adult pain po... Read More about Parental behaviour in paediatric chronic pain: A qualitative observational study.

Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks (2014)
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© 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This article uses a recently presented abstract, tunable Boolean regulatory network model to further explore aspects of mobile DNA, such as transposons. The significant role of mobile DNA in the evolution... Read More about Evolving functional and structural dynamism in coupled boolean networks.

Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses (2014)
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2013. Background: Over the last two decades the UK health service has endeavoured to place patient and public involvement at the heart of its modernisation agenda. Despite these aspirations the role of patients in... Read More about Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses.

Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. This paper is a novel application of acoustic emission (AE) technique to investigate the actual occurring modes of delamination damage (i.e. mode I, mode II and the... Read More about Investigation of the mixed-mode delamination in polymer-matrix composites using acoustic emission technique.

Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights (2014)
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© 2014 Taylor & Francis. Public support for human rights in the UK remains limited, partly as a result of misleading media coverage, as well as political hostility. The UK Human Rights Act, in particular, has been under sustained attack and is now... Read More about Developing public support for human rights in the United Kingdom: Reasserting the importance of socio-economic rights.

Towards collaborative approach? Investigating the regeneration of urban village in Guangzhou, China (2014)
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Along with the green-land shortage and the low use efficiency of urban land as a result of rapid urban sprawl in the past three decades, the issue of urban regeneration has been recently brought to the governance agenda by the new leadership in China... Read More about Towards collaborative approach? Investigating the regeneration of urban village in Guangzhou, China.

What can "thematic analysis" offer health and wellbeing researchers? (2014)
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Moth species richness, abundance and diversity in fragmented urban woodlands: Implications for conservation and management strategies (2014)
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Urban expansion threatens global biodiversity through the destruction of natural and semi-natural habitats and increased levels of disturbance. Whilst woodlands in urban areas may reduce the impact of urbanisation on biodiversity, they are often subj... Read More about Moth species richness, abundance and diversity in fragmented urban woodlands: Implications for conservation and management strategies.

Widening participation, social mobility and the role of universities in a globalized world (2014)
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Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups (2014)
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© The Author(s) 2013. Through the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, the idea of horizontal, leaderless organization has come to the attention of the mass media. In this article we explore radical, participative-democratic alternatives to leadershi... Read More about Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups.

Self-directed learning on a full-time MBA - A cautionary tale (2014)
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This article provides a cautionary tale of the complexities of implementing peer learning groups (PLG's) and blended learning approaches for promoting self-directed learning (SDL) in the context of competing objectives for staff and students on a ful... Read More about Self-directed learning on a full-time MBA - A cautionary tale.

Future for offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom: The way forward (2014)
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The majority of our energy demand is satisfied by the combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. This has resulted in our fossil fuel resources being vastly reduced and has increased the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere which is c... Read More about Future for offshore wind energy in the United Kingdom: The way forward.

Vulnerable individuals or harmful institutions?: J M Moore questions whether the current review of deaths in custody goes far enough (2014)
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J M Moore questions whether the current review of deaths in custody goes far enough

Towards the development of the psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale for continence (C-PIADS) (2014)
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© 2014 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved. BACKGROUND: Current outcome measures for continence management devices do not adequately address psychosocial impact. The PIADS is an assessment tool that has been shown to reliably predict the... Read More about Towards the development of the psychosocial impact of assistive devices scale for continence (C-PIADS).

Improving and validating children’s nurses communication skills with standardized patients in end of life care (2014)
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© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. Children’s nurse education is experiencing increases in recruitment targets at the same time that clinical placements are decreasing. With regard to end-of-life care, it is has become a challenge to ensure that all stude... Read More about Improving and validating children’s nurses communication skills with standardized patients in end of life care.

The Canadian contribution to the otolaryngology literature: A five year bibliometric analysis (2014)
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© 2014 Gurberg et al. Objectives: To assess the 2008-2012 Canadian contribution to the Otolaryngology literature. Methods: All articles published from January 2008 - December 2012 in 5 Otolaryngology journals were reviewed. Nationality, number of aut... Read More about The Canadian contribution to the otolaryngology literature: A five year bibliometric analysis.

An evaluation of primary care led dementia diagnostic services in Bristol (2014)
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© 2014 Dodd et al. Background: Typically people who go to see their GP with a memory problem will be initially assessed and those patients who seem to be at risk will be referred onto a memory clinic. The demographic forces mean that memory services... Read More about An evaluation of primary care led dementia diagnostic services in Bristol.