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Assessment of policies and legislation that affect management of Wetlands in Nigeria (2012)
Journal Article

The beneficial ecosystem services provided by wetlands in Nigeria are continuously subjected to considerable stress that has consequences for human wellbeing. An understanding of the policies and legislation governing wetland can help enhance their m... Read More about Assessment of policies and legislation that affect management of Wetlands in Nigeria.

Integrating podcast technology effectively into student learning: A reflexive examination (2012)
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This paper examines undergraduate student perceptions of the learning utility of video podcasts. The perceived and actual effectiveness of the technology was assessed by written questionnaire, focus groups and assessment results. The podcasts were pe... Read More about Integrating podcast technology effectively into student learning: A reflexive examination.

The effects of energy drink in combination with alcohol on performance and subjective awareness (2012)
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Rationale This study investigated the coadministration of an energy drink with alcohol to study the effects on subjective intoxication and objective performance. Objectives This study aims to evaluate the objective and subjective effects of alcohol v... Read More about The effects of energy drink in combination with alcohol on performance and subjective awareness.

'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev (2012)
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Exploring Letter to Brezhnev through concepts of respectability as feminine cultural capital this article suggests that the film’s affective impulse stems from its representation of a female, working class experience under Thatcherism. This experienc... Read More about 'Stuff it': Respectability and the voice of resistance in letter to brezhnev.

Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting (2012)
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Prisons are social communities where people commonly conform to normative institutional and cultural values and ideologies. Conforming as a man in prison may involve performing or projecting prison masculinities to ensure emotional, psychological, an... Read More about Trying to be Something You Are Not: Masculine Performances within a Prison Setting.

Redeveloping the research section of Meningitis UK’s website: A case study report (2012)
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The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates (2012)
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It has become a received wisdom that the completion of a work placement as part of a sandwich undergraduate degree is of positive benefit both to graduates and employers, particularly in an era that stresses the economic contribution of higher educat... Read More about The impact of work placements on skills development and career outcomes for business and management graduates.

Sunderland (2012)
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Sunderland, lying on the north east coast of England, is the largest city in the north east of England. Having historically suffered from its proximity to the Tyneside conurbation centred around Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sunderland has a long and illustri... Read More about Sunderland.

A robust multi-scale integration method to obtain the depth from gradient maps (2012)
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We describe a robust method for the recovery of the depth map (or height map) from a gradient map (or normal map) of a scene, such as would be obtained by photometric stereo or interferometry. Our method allows for uncertain or missing samples, which... Read More about A robust multi-scale integration method to obtain the depth from gradient maps.

The impact of social anxiety on student learning and well-being in higher education (2012)
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Background This paper reports findings from two complementary web-surveys conducted in the UK, in which 787 university students described their experiences of social anxiety.Aims The aim was to explore the impact of social anxiety on student learning... Read More about The impact of social anxiety on student learning and well-being in higher education.

An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry (2012)
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Build to Order [BTO] refers to a demand driven production approach where the majority of products and components are scheduled and built in response to a confirmed order received for it from a final customer. A £23m EU project involving leading auto... Read More about An engineering systems approach to strategic change: The case of the European Automotive Industry.

Examining a typology of fire service-related anti-social behaviour (2012)
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The Fire and Rescue Service (FRS) in England and Wales increasingly works alongside the police and other partners to promote safer communities-a key part of which involves tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB). Although definitions of ASB differ and a... Read More about Examining a typology of fire service-related anti-social behaviour.

Effects of multimedia characteristics on novice CAD learners practice performance (2012)
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Based on the assumption that providing information using multiple modalities improves learners' performance, the teaching of computer-aided design (CAD) in the built environment is increasingly shifting from printed material to a multimedia approach.... Read More about Effects of multimedia characteristics on novice CAD learners practice performance.

Maximising electricity production by controlling the biofilm specific growth rate in microbial fuel cells (2012)
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The aim of this work is to study the relationship between growth rate and electricity production in perfusion-electrode microbial fuel cells (MFCs), across a wide range of flow rates by co-measurement of electrical output and changes in population nu... Read More about Maximising electricity production by controlling the biofilm specific growth rate in microbial fuel cells.

Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo (2012)
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Does an extra year of schooling augment one's propensity to migrate? In a naive regression, which does not account for the potential reverse causality and omitted variables, the coefficient of education is likely to be biased. To deal with the proble... Read More about Does More Schooling Make You Run for the Border? Evidence from Post-Independence Kosovo.

Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant? (2012)
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This paper considers the problem of Internet regulation, and how it has been exacerbated by poor theoretical models for cyberspace. Furthermore, it considers how the conceptual difficulties with regard to the nature of cyberspace have been replicated... Read More about Lawyers and cyberspace: Seeing the elephant?.

The production of space in metropolitan regions: A Lefebvrian analysis of governance and spatial change (2012)
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The language of relational geography now permeates the field and literature of planning, with phrases such as 'fuzzy boundaries' and 'flows and networks' being commonly used to express the complexity of socio-economic and governance relations. Howeve... Read More about The production of space in metropolitan regions: A Lefebvrian analysis of governance and spatial change.

Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation (2012)
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In building theories to explain phenomena one of the key challenges is to identify the correct ‘unit of analysis’. This is fundamental if theory is to be useful in explaining the salient features of that phenomena and its broader impact. Within the... Read More about Disrupting practices: New insights into innovation.

Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany (2012)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop experimental laboratory biological techniques for approximation of principle transport networks, optimizing transport links, and developing optimal solutions to current transport problems. It also aims... Read More about Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany.

From inconsistency handling to non-canonical requirements management: A logical perspective (2012)
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As a class of defects in software requirements specification, inconsistency has been widely studied in both requirements engineering and software engineering. It has been increasingly recognized that maintaining consistency alone often results in som... Read More about From inconsistency handling to non-canonical requirements management: A logical perspective.