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Spatial variations in airborne microorganism and endotoxin concentrations at green waste composting facilities (2011)
Journal Article
The emission and dispersal of bioaerosols from open-air commercial composting facilities continues to be contentious. A meta-dataset enumerating cultivable microorganism emission and downwind concentrations is not yet available. A dataset derived fro... Read More about Spatial variations in airborne microorganism and endotoxin concentrations at green waste composting facilities.
Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history (2011)
Journal Article
Beyond greener pastures: exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history The history of immigrant Filipino nurses in Canada has received little attention, yet Canada is a major receiving country of a growing num... Read More about Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history.
Screening potential patients and assessing outcomes of cosmetic procedures; patient reported data (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Development management and localism: Zeitgeist or lasting change? (2011)
Journal Article
The spatial planning approach has become accepted as the progressive theoretical and professional currency in England following the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act. The reforms which followed sought considerable change in the remit of plan... Read More about Development management and localism: Zeitgeist or lasting change?.
Film noir and Los Angeles (2011)
Book Chapter
An overview of the different ways in which Los Angeles has been represented in film noir and neo-noir, so films from the 1940s to the present, from Double Indemnity (1944) to Collateral (2004). The essay explores the particular relationship between L... Read More about Film noir and Los Angeles.
Resident participation in housing regeneration in France (2011)
Journal Article
The involvement of local residents in housing regeneration policy and practice has become a 'new orthodoxy' across Western Europe. This paper considers the experience of France, a country noted for its history of 'third sector' activism and innovativ... Read More about Resident participation in housing regeneration in France.
State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations (2011)
Journal Article
Over the last three decades, new concepts, strategies, frameworks and systems have been developed to tackle the sustainable development issue. This paper reviews the challenges, perspectives and recent advances in support of sustainable production op... Read More about State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations.
Conceptualizing age-friendly communities (2011)
Journal Article
On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more "age-friendly", an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by bu... Read More about Conceptualizing age-friendly communities.
Identification of key performance indicators for measuring the performance of value management studies in construction (2011)
Journal Article
Value management (VM) is widely regarded as a useful tool for management to meet the challenges, such as limited resources and tight schedules arising in the construction industry. A rigorous measurement on the performance of VM studies is likely to... Read More about Identification of key performance indicators for measuring the performance of value management studies in construction.
Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration (2011)
Journal Article
The EU, through the Cardiff and the Gothenburg strategies, sought to counter what was seen as fragmented and uncoordinated environmental policy development by promoting a broad and integrated approach to sustainability. This article seeks to assess t... Read More about Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration.
Distributed leadership in organizations: A review of theory and research (2011)
Journal Article
The aim of this paper is to review conceptual and empirical literature on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in order to identify its origins, key arguments, and areas for further work. Consideration is given to the similarities and differenc... Read More about Distributed leadership in organizations: A review of theory and research.
Still 'a good job for a woman'? Women teachers' experiences of modernization in England and Wales (2011)
Journal Article
This article examines women teachers' experiences of modernization in schools in England and Wales. The article explores the impact of modernization on their work and non-work lives and why, in some cases, modernization has made it impossible for the... Read More about Still 'a good job for a woman'? Women teachers' experiences of modernization in England and Wales.
Editorial: Gender equality and modernization of public sector employment (2011)
Journal Article
Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh (2011)
Journal Article
The former Maze Prison/Long Kesh in Lisburn, near Belfast, is one of the primary sites associated with the 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. Controversy about the site's future makes it clear that the redevelopment of contested heritage cannot be d... Read More about Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh.
The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy (2011)
Journal Article
© 2011, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This paper addresses some of the debates about citizen involvement in decisions about science and technological innovation. It describes some of the claims and scientific uncertainties surrounding hydr... Read More about The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy.
Modern life is rubbish (2011)
Journal Article
Editorial
Breath ammonia levels in a normal human population study as determined by photoacoustic laser spectroscopy (2011)
Journal Article
Photoacoustic laser spectroscopy was used as a technique to measure real-time levels of ammonia in exhaled human breath in a small, locally recruited, normal healthy population (n = 30). This yielded an average level of breath ammonia of 265 ppb, ran... Read More about Breath ammonia levels in a normal human population study as determined by photoacoustic laser spectroscopy.