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Ageing, Local Birth Rates and Attitudes towards Immigration:Evidence from a Transition Economy (2012)
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Ivļevs A. Ageing, local birth rates and attitudes towards immigration:evidence from a transition economy, Regional Studies. This paper studies the links between local birth rates and individual attitudes towards immigration, focusing on Latvia - a co... Read More about Ageing, Local Birth Rates and Attitudes towards Immigration:Evidence from a Transition Economy.

A system for the continuous generation of simulated human breath supplemented with trace gases (2012)
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A system was developed to simulate the relative humidity (RH) and temperature characteristics of human breath at a constant human volume flow rate. The system was also designed to allow supplementation of the artificial breath with known concentratio... Read More about A system for the continuous generation of simulated human breath supplemented with trace gases.

Preventing the "Abuses" of Democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and Transitional Dictatorship in Chile? (2012)
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Hayek famously claimed that he would prefer a "liberal" dictator to "democratic government lacking in liberalism." While Hayek's views of the Pinochet regime have generated much controversy, surprisingly little has been written about Hayek's defense... Read More about Preventing the "Abuses" of Democracy: Hayek, the "Military Usurper" and Transitional Dictatorship in Chile?.

Liquidity preference, uncertainty, and recession in a stock-flow consistent model (2012)
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This paper develops a stock-flow consistent model that explicitly integrates the role of liquidity preference and perceived uncertainty into the decision-making process of households, firms, and commercial banks. Emphasis is placed on (1) the link be... Read More about Liquidity preference, uncertainty, and recession in a stock-flow consistent model.

Culture-based development: Empirical evidence for Germany (2012)
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive concept for the role of culture in economic growth. Design/methodology/approach - The paper overviews the culture based development (CBD) concept and its precise definition of culture... Read More about Culture-based development: Empirical evidence for Germany.

'It's the conversation they'll learn from': Improving assessments for GP Specialist Trainees in hospital posts (2012)
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Review of ‘Sorensen, A. and Okata, J. (Eds.) (2011) Megacities: urban form, governance and sustainability. Springer: Tokyo. ISBN 978-4-431-99266-0’ (2012)
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Electrochemotherapy for large cutaneous recurrence of breast cancer: A phase II clinical trial (2012)
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Background. Cutaneous recurrences of breast cancer may cause considerable discomfort due to ulceration, oozing, and pain and can also be difficult to treat. Electrochemotherapy is a localised anticancer treatment using electric pulses to make cell me... Read More about Electrochemotherapy for large cutaneous recurrence of breast cancer: A phase II clinical trial.

(Book Review) Third wave feminism and the politics of gender in late modernity, Shelley Budgeon. Palgrave Macmillan (2011), 208 pages, ISBN: 9780230580909 (2012)
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Book review

Assessing cardiovascular risk in patients with severe mental illness (2012)
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a term mainly used to describe disorders affecting the heart and/or the arteries and veins that are associated with atherosclerosis (the build up of fatty deposits and debris inside blood vessels).
CVDs, such as coron... Read More about Assessing cardiovascular risk in patients with severe mental illness.

Demographic changes: Conflict in Germany (2012)
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Two important demographic trends for advanced industrialised nations are: rapidly ageing populations and falling birth rates (Buck and Dworschak 2003; Henseke et al. 2009; Kirpal and Kühl 2006; Thun et al. 2007). These shifts are expected to lead to... Read More about Demographic changes: Conflict in Germany.

Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy (2012)
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This is the introduction to the special issue of Culture Machine co-edited by the authors and drawn from the 2010 conference of the same name co-convened by the Digital Cultures Research Centre for the European Science Foundaiton (see www.payingatten... Read More about Paying attention: Toward a critique of the attention economy.

Politics and affect (2012)
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Until very recently Political Studies has largely ignored the role of the human passions. Understanding the difference between emotion and affect seems vital to this task, as without the latter emotion becomes cognitivised and over-civilised. In this... Read More about Politics and affect.

Exploring the learning experiences of student nurses with dyslexia on placement (2012)
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Book review: An Introduction to the Law on Financial Investment - By Iain MacNeil (2012)
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Academic spring - a seasonal variation or global warming? (2012)
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A look at media attention to the issue of open access to research papers in the run up to the Finch Report in 2012.

Evaluation of a method allowing preservation of fresh lymph nodes for flow cytometric immunophenotyping (2012)
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Background: Flow cytometric immunophenotyping (FCI) of lymph nodes (LN) requires fresh unfixed tissue, with analysis being carried out within few hours post surgery. This study evaluated a novel method for fresh LN preservation, in order to allow his... Read More about Evaluation of a method allowing preservation of fresh lymph nodes for flow cytometric immunophenotyping.

On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets (2012)
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When lipid vesicles filled with Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) excitable chemical medium are packed in tight assembles, waves of excitation may travel between the vesicles. When several waves meet in a vesicle some fragments may deflect, others can annihi... Read More about On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets.

Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression (2012)
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Working from 38 interviews with people who had experienced depression this study compares metaphors with those identified in previous research. It also compares the types of metaphor of men and women talking about depression and how these metaphors w... Read More about Shattering the Bell Jar: Metaphor, Gender, and Depression.

Listening to the tube map: Rhythm and the historiography of urban map use (2012)
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This paper is in two parts. In the first half I consider the challenge posed by the recent performative turn in critical cartography to the urban historical geographer. If maps come into being only within the diverse moments of their use, then how ca... Read More about Listening to the tube map: Rhythm and the historiography of urban map use.