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Jimmy Carter and the sale of the AWACS to Iran in 1977 (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. It appeared that as 1977 dawned, the political climate in the United States might render multi-billion dollar arms sales into unstable regions a thing of the past. Jimmy Carter triumphed in the presidential elect... Read More about Jimmy Carter and the sale of the AWACS to Iran in 1977.

Commentary on the European Council’s Draft Guidelines Following the UK’s Notification under Article 50 TEU (2017)
Journal Article

Under Article 50(2) TEU ‘A Member State which decides to withdraw [from the EU] shall notify the European Council of its intention.’ As the Heads of States or Government of the 27 Member States and the Presidents of the European Council and the Europ... Read More about Commentary on the European Council’s Draft Guidelines Following the UK’s Notification under Article 50 TEU.

Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper proposes a set of five ethical principles, together with seven high-level messages, as a basis for responsible robotics. The Principles of Robotics... Read More about Principles of robotics: regulating robots in the real world.

Impression Management Activity in Vision, Mission, and Values Statements: A Comparison of Commercial and Charitable Organizations (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Abstract: This article investigates the extent to which vision, mission, and values (VM&V) statements play a role in corporate identity management by commercial and charitable organizations. Impressi... Read More about Impression Management Activity in Vision, Mission, and Values Statements: A Comparison of Commercial and Charitable Organizations.

Structural machines and slime mould computation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. A Physarum machine is a programmable amorphous biological computer experimentally implemented in the vegetative state of true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. It comprises an amorphous... Read More about Structural machines and slime mould computation.

Workplace well-being in the London-Chinese business community (2017)
Journal Article

Purpose Workplace well-being is key to improving health and therefore productivity. Although the Chinese population and their influence on business in the UK are growing rapidly, little is known about the attitudes of Chinese employers and employees... Read More about Workplace well-being in the London-Chinese business community.

Children and young people's behaviour in accidental dwelling fires: A systematic review of the qualitative literature (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Children and young people are considered one of the most vulnerable population groups when exposed to accidental dwelling fires. Understanding how children behave in these circumstances and the reasons for their decision making ar... Read More about Children and young people's behaviour in accidental dwelling fires: A systematic review of the qualitative literature.

Efficient round-optimal blind signatures in the standard model (2017)
Book Chapter

Blind signatures are at the core of e-cash systems and has numerous other applications. In this work we construct efficient blind and partially blind signature schemes over bilinear groups in the standard model. Our schemes yield short signatures co... Read More about Efficient round-optimal blind signatures in the standard model.

Student and staff perceptions of the international postgraduate student experience: A qualitative study of a UK university (2017)
Journal Article

This study aimed to explore student and staff perceptions of academic, personal and social factors influencing the international postgraduate student experience at a UK University. Focus groups were conducted with international students enrolled on a... Read More about Student and staff perceptions of the international postgraduate student experience: A qualitative study of a UK university.

Can a patient reported outcome be adequate without assessing quality of life in lower urinary tract dysfunction? (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. AIMS AND METHODS: A think tank was convened at the sixth ICI-RS meeting held in the United Kingdom on September 2015, to consider the adequacy of patient reported outcome (PRO) measurement if quality of life (QoL) evalu... Read More about Can a patient reported outcome be adequate without assessing quality of life in lower urinary tract dysfunction?.

Home or hospital for people with dementia and one or more other multimorbidities: What is the potential to reduce avoidable emergency admissions? the HOMEWARD Project Protocol (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. IntroductionOlder people with multimorbidities frequently access 999 ambulance services. When multimorbidities include dementia, the risk of ambulance use, accident and emergency (A&E) attendance... Read More about Home or hospital for people with dementia and one or more other multimorbidities: What is the potential to reduce avoidable emergency admissions? the HOMEWARD Project Protocol.

Dear Reader… some contemporary books by artists (2017)
Journal Article

Artists’ books have evolved over the last sixty years into a significant, international contemporary arts practice. In the 1960s, the artist’s book grew in popularity as a means of bypassing dealers in high end galleries, taking artists’ works out to... Read More about Dear Reader… some contemporary books by artists.

Healthy cities: The evidence and what to do with it (2017)
Journal Article

Laurence Carmichael shows how urban designers can help improve wellbeing

Affronted adverbials: The debate on grammar (2017)
Journal Article

John Hodgson gives a personal account of NATE’s part in language and grammar study over the last fifty years - from Chomsky to SPaG, via Language in Use, LINC, and Grammar for Writing.

The early guilty plea scheme and the rising wave of managerialism (2017)
Journal Article

This article examines the ramifications of the early guilty plea scheme. The article highlights a number of issues for both adversarialism and ever increasing desire for a more efficient criminal justice process.

Mechanical ventilation, weaning practices, and decision making in European PICUs (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. Objectives: This survey had three key objectives: 1) To describe responsibility for key ventilation and weaning dec... Read More about Mechanical ventilation, weaning practices, and decision making in European PICUs.

The life review and the (alternative) politics of ageing (2017)
Journal Article

© Edinburgh University Press. Referencing Diana Athill's memoir, Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter (2015), this article organises an analysis of the BBC television dramas A Cream Cracker under the Settee (1988) and She's Been Away (1989)... Read More about The life review and the (alternative) politics of ageing.

Dichtung und Wirtschaft - oder: Die (Brief-)Freundschaft zwischen dem Dichter Ernst Wiechert und dem Okonomen Karl William Kapp (2017)
Book

This book argues for a poetic economics as an alternative to neoliberal economics. This argument is supported with a case study of archival documents on the inspirational friendship between the poet Ernst Wiechert and the economist K. Wm. Kapp.

Air pollution: Putting people at the heart of the issues (2017)
Journal Article

Dr Tim Chatterton considers the theory that the root causes of air pollution are social, not just technological

Attention as a basis for thinking in groups (2017)
Book Chapter

In this contribution, which is taken from Chapter 1 of our book, 'Attention, Cooperation, Purpose: An approach to working in groups using insights from Wilfred Bion' (Karnac, 2015), we outline the state of mind we talk of as attention. We make an imp... Read More about Attention as a basis for thinking in groups.