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The crisis in South Africa: Neoliberalism, financialization and uneven and combined development (2011)
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South Africa is now, ‘officially’, the most unequal society in the world – though there seems to be a macabre rivalry with Brazil for this status. The poorest 20 per cent of South Africans receive 1.6 per cent of total income while the richest 20 per... Read More about The crisis in South Africa: Neoliberalism, financialization and uneven and combined development.

Amnesty international? The nature, scale and impact of capital flight from South Africa (2011)
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The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) announced in July 2010 its intention to introduce a new amnesty for illegal capital flight. For a flat rate fee of 10 per cent of the value of the assets, corporations and individuals disclosing their illegal exp... Read More about Amnesty international? The nature, scale and impact of capital flight from South Africa.

Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing indicators to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities (2011)
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Developments in transportation and information and communication technologies (ICTs) have facilitated the process labeled activity fragmentation. In this process, the weakened associations between activity, time, and place that ICTs made possible fac... Read More about Anything, anywhere, anytime? Developing indicators to assess the spatial and temporal fragmentation of activities.

Exploring the development of a cultural care framework for European caring science (2011)
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The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of a cultural care framework that seeks to inform and embrace the philosophical ideals of caring science. Following a review of the literature that identified a lack of evidence of an explicit relat... Read More about Exploring the development of a cultural care framework for European caring science.

Virtual reality in engineering education: The future of creative learning (2011)
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Virtual reality has achieved an adequate level of development for it to be considered in innovative applications such as education, training, and research in higher education. Virtual reality offers both opportunities and challenges for the education... Read More about Virtual reality in engineering education: The future of creative learning.

The shifting sands of employability (2011)
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The term ‘employability’ has gradually permeated the national consciousness, increasingly used across a variety of policy areas including higher education, social welfare and public finance. However, despite its offhand use in government policy disco... Read More about The shifting sands of employability.

The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta) (2011)
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In August 2009 the Natural History Museum London, Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology Research group, Entomological Museum in Leon and The Society for Environmental Exploration, mounted the first earthworm collection expedition to... Read More about The first earthworm collections from Nicaragua with description of two new species (Oligochaeta).

Effect of the exposure to metal lead on the regenerative ability of Lumbriculus variegatus (Oligochaeta) (2011)
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Lumbriculus variegatus is a recommended species for use in sediment toxicity tests and is known to have a remarkable power of segmental regeneration. Here, we tested the effects of a chemical stressor on the regenerative ability of L. variegatus and... Read More about Effect of the exposure to metal lead on the regenerative ability of Lumbriculus variegatus (Oligochaeta).

Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach (2011)
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Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation sys... Read More about Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach.

A screen-printed microband glucose biosensor system for real-time monitoring of toxicity in cell culture (2011)
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#Microband biosensors, screen-printed from a water-based carbon ink containing cobalt phthalocyanine redox mediator and glucose oxidase (GOD) enzyme, were used to monitor glucose levels continuously in buffer and culture medium. Five biosensors were... Read More about A screen-printed microband glucose biosensor system for real-time monitoring of toxicity in cell culture.

Technology outsourcing in manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms: Another competitive resource? (2011)
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Based on a sample of UK manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms in the engineering and electronics industry, the study identifies firm- and industry-specific factors that stimulate R&D outsourcing and assesses the impact of R&D investment and out... Read More about Technology outsourcing in manufacturing small- and medium-sized firms: Another competitive resource?.

"The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror" (2011)
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This article argues that the ideological mechanisms and norms used to render the War on Terror both familiar and seemingly inevitable to a wide public have long been present in popular American culture in the form of professional wrestling. The profe... Read More about "The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror".

Not just for the love of horses. Bodywork and the labour process in racing stables (2011)
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The paradox of intensification (2011)
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Urban intensification as part of a smart growth strategy can facilitate low-energy transport modes and reduce overall car use, with benefits to the global environment, but evidence suggests the effect will be less than proportional. Hence, in locatio... Read More about The paradox of intensification.

Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder' (2011)
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Background: The limited efficacy of treatments for eating disorders has been well documented. Yet few studies have explored patients' views about recovery or how culturally dominant ideas might be implicated in recovery or failure to recover. Aims Th... Read More about Un/imaginable future selves: A discourse analysis of in-patients' talk about recovery from an 'eating disorder'.

Challenging the coherence of social justice as a shared nursing value (2011)
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Normative and prescriptive claims regarding social justice are often inadequately developed in the nursing literature and, in consequence, they must be rejected in their current form. Thus, claims regarding social justice are frequently presented as... Read More about Challenging the coherence of social justice as a shared nursing value.

Time-course of attentional bias for threat-related cues in patients with chronic daily headache-tension type: Evidence for the role of anger (2011)
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This study investigated the role of anger in attentional bias for linguistic threat-related stimuli in individuals with chronic daily headache (CDH) tension type and healthy controls. Attentional bias was assessed using a visual probe task which pres... Read More about Time-course of attentional bias for threat-related cues in patients with chronic daily headache-tension type: Evidence for the role of anger.

The data vacuum in emergency and urgent care (2011)
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Recent developments in monetary policy (2011)
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Living life in pictures: Isotype as modernist cultural practice (2011)
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