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Doctrinal watershed in the interpretation of contractual impossibility under the CISG, UNIDROIT principles and English law (2017)
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The advents of uniform international commercial laws and model laws have seen serious variations in the applications and interpretations of different doctrines. The doctrine of impossibility of performance of a contract has spawned different routes v... Read More about Doctrinal watershed in the interpretation of contractual impossibility under the CISG, UNIDROIT principles and English law.

BIM education framework for clients and professionals of the construction industry (2017)
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Lack of qualified BIM professionals is a key BIM challenge that affects specific organisations and on a more macro scale, individual countries. A salient solution to this problem is the provision of better BIM education. This article represents the i... Read More about BIM education framework for clients and professionals of the construction industry.

At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology? (2017)
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The paper examines the link between ideology in law and social ontology. Whereas academic enquiries have thus far mainly concentrated on the link between law per se and social reality, the question of the relationship of the ideology of law and socia... Read More about At the crossroads of law and ideology: The ideology of law as a reflection of social ontology?.

Intellectual capital integration for value co-creation in higher education (2017)
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In the changing dynamics of socioeconomic settings, the role of HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) is now realized as more strategic and central to all such developments. The dynamics are sometimes characterized by government interventions, industr... Read More about Intellectual capital integration for value co-creation in higher education.

Accreditations and internationalization of the Business School Curricula (2017)
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Study of photovoltaics (PV) performance degradation analysis in Oman (2017)
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The demand for electricity usage is increasing all around the globe. As an alternative and clean source to produce electricity there has been an emphasis on the usage of renewable energies. Sultanate of Oman has also taken an initiative by 2030 that... Read More about Study of photovoltaics (PV) performance degradation analysis in Oman.

Understanding IT governance effectiveness in Asia: An event study (2017)
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The study seeks to examine the impact of Information technology (IT) governance structure, process and relational mechanisms on firm performance. Using an event study, we collected a sample of 70 announcements of IT governance adoption investments. W... Read More about Understanding IT governance effectiveness in Asia: An event study.

"God Almighty sanctifie thes afflictive providences to us": The life-writing of Robert Salusbury of Henllan (2017)
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Journeys towards learning in a new key: Researching the challenge of introducing deep cultural and psychological resources in classrooms (2017)
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This paper seeks to explore and reflect upon the staged process that took place in the LINK project to introduce musical listening and improvisation as a regular social, emotional and therapeutic experience in the classroom. It will describe the grad... Read More about Journeys towards learning in a new key: Researching the challenge of introducing deep cultural and psychological resources in classrooms.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
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Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

Evolutionary computing frameworks for optimisation (2017)
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Evolutionary algorithms can find optimal solutions to problems. This article gives an overview of some programming frameworks available to solve optimisation problems.

The impact of an extreme observation in a paired samples design (2017)
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The effect of systematically altering the value of a single observation within a paired differences design is considered. A paradox is observed for the paired samples t-test, where increasing the value of an observation in the direction of the true m... Read More about The impact of an extreme observation in a paired samples design.

Lightweight cryptography methods (2017)
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While our conventional cryptography methods, such for AES (encryption), SHA-256 (hashing) and RSA/Elliptic Curve (signing), work well on systems which have reasonable processing power and memory capabilities, these do not scale well into a world with... Read More about Lightweight cryptography methods.

Making friends with books (2017)
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A report on the first Cardiff Artists' Books (CAB) event at The Printhaus in Cardiff and their future plans for 2018.

Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography (2017)
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Conventionally, ethnographic methods in sociolinguistics aim to discover how language works as “situated social practice and how it is tied to social organisation” (Heller 2011: 10). Within this, ethnography has viewed participant observation as cent... Read More about Ethnographic chats: A best of both method for ethnography.

Neuropsychotherapy as an integrative framework in counselling psychology: The example of trauma (2017)
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This article describes how principles from neuroscience can be used to inform, guide and develop psychotherapy. Such a "neuropsychotherapeutic approach" has been put forward by various authors. In this papers, the current authors develop the notion o... Read More about Neuropsychotherapy as an integrative framework in counselling psychology: The example of trauma.

Injuries in Nepal - A neglected public health burden and ways forward (2017)
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Editorial - no abstract

An exploration of bisexual, lesbian, and heterosexual women's body dissatisfaction, and body hair and make-up practices (2017)
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Body image pressures for heterosexual women are well established. However, lesbian body image is less well understood, while bisexual women have largely been overlooked with the psychological literature. Further, women's investment in ‘traditional’ a... Read More about An exploration of bisexual, lesbian, and heterosexual women's body dissatisfaction, and body hair and make-up practices.

The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure (2017)
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In a number of interrelated articles, I have presented some ideas about the nature of proper names, and specifically about their meaning. A central concept of these papers has been subjected to criticism, I believe inappropriately, by several scholar... Read More about The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure.

Performance of irrigated maize in a crude-oil polluted soil remediated by three nutrients in Nigeria's Niger Delta (2017)
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An in-situ simulated crude-oil polluted soil was remediated for 8 weeks by three different nutrients, and then used to plant maize (Farz 26) with a growth period of 14 weeks, with an irrigation depth of 4mm/day. Remediation consisted of the applicati... Read More about Performance of irrigated maize in a crude-oil polluted soil remediated by three nutrients in Nigeria's Niger Delta.