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Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences (2000)
Book

This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long... Read More about Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences.

Dynamic job-shop scheduling using reinforcement learning agents (2000)
Journal Article

Static and dynamic scheduling methods have attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Among these, dynamic scheduling techniques handle scheduling problems where the scheduler does not possess detailed information about the jobs, which may arrive... Read More about Dynamic job-shop scheduling using reinforcement learning agents.

Globalization of communication: A New Zealand exploratory study (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Advertising restrictions: Effective protection of the young and vulnerable (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Revisiting Edward Aveling (2000)
Book Chapter

While the mythologising of nature in British writing at the end of the long nineteenth century has been often regarded as nostalgic, escapist and evasive, this chapter argues that such writing found in the cult of ‘Pan’ and ‘The Open Road’ imaginativ... Read More about Revisiting Edward Aveling.

Strategic alliances and relationships between organisations in the public sector (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Marketing information systems in public services: Paying lip service to customer satisfaction? (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Use of practical training programmes in young children's road safety education (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Excision from tRNA genes of a large chromosomal region, carrying avrPphB, associated with race change in the bean pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola (2000)
Journal Article

Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola (Pph) race 4 strain 1302A carries avirulence gene avrPphB. Strain RJ3, a sectoral variant from a 1302A culture, exhibited an extended host range in cultivars of bean and soybean resulting from the absence of avrP... Read More about Excision from tRNA genes of a large chromosomal region, carrying avrPphB, associated with race change in the bean pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola.

Transportation projects selection process using fuzzy sets theory (2000)
Journal Article

Government transportation agencies are faced with the problem of efficiently selecting a subset of transportation projects for implementation. This selection process is based on multiple objectives which are often measured in incommensurable units. U... Read More about Transportation projects selection process using fuzzy sets theory.

The practitioner as policy analyst: A study of student reflections of an interprofessional studies course in higher education (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An overview of author's results in graph theory (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Implications of globalization on customer relationship management (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Donor retention: Some reflections on current practice (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Life after SCBU: the long term influence on mothers' at home with a child with bronchopulmonary dysplasia on home oxygen (2000)
Journal Article

Infection control issues in the orthopaedic theatre environment (2000)
Journal Article

Linking research and practice in midwifery: A guide to evidence-based practice (2000)
Book Chapter

Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration (2000)
Book

The mass movement of people across the globe constitutes a major feature of world politics today.

Whatever the cause of the movement - often war, famine, economic hardship, political repression or climate change - the governments of western capita... Read More about Philosophies of Exclusion: Liberal Political Theory and Immigration.

Preparing staff for the delivery of interprofessional education (2000)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market (2000)
Journal Article

This article develops a new multilateral decomposition procedure for the analysis of wage differentials and applies this to the racial wage hierarchy in the South African labour market. Using micro-data on male workers from the 1994 October Household... Read More about A multilateral decomposition of racial wage differentials in the 1994 South African labour market.