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Epilogue: Retrospect and prospects: The significance of the 'lost decades' in Japan (2012)
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This is the concluding article to a special issue on Japan's Lost Decade accepted by the journal Asia Pacific Business Review.

Fettered by the past in the march forward: Ideology as an explanation for today's malaise in Japan (2012)
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Japan's 'lost decade' of the 1990s is more than 10 years of economic downturn. The fact that a further decade later the malaise continues suggests that this is more than just an extended bad patch. Measures have been implemented to revitalize the eco... Read More about Fettered by the past in the march forward: Ideology as an explanation for today's malaise in Japan.

Unacknowledged and unwanted? Environmental refugees in search of legal status (2012)
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Environmental displacement is a global phenomenon affecting millions of people. Due to climate change and the corresponding sea-level rise, it is estimated that about eight million of indigenous people of Pacific Islands will be forced to settle else... Read More about Unacknowledged and unwanted? Environmental refugees in search of legal status.

Identifying facilitators and barriers for home injury prevention interventions for pre-school children: A systematic review of the quantitative literature (2012)
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Injuries are the leading cause of childhood death internationally; steep social gradients exist in mortality and morbidity. The majority of pre-school injuries occur in the home, but implementing research into practice for injury prevention has recei... Read More about Identifying facilitators and barriers for home injury prevention interventions for pre-school children: A systematic review of the quantitative literature.

The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition (2012)
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Narratives of macroeconomic stabilization played an important part in the financialization of the formerly planned economies. The excess demand narrative, one of the least contested 'problems' of post-socialist transformation, shaped central banks' l... Read More about The Road to Financialization in Central and Eastern Europe: The Early Policies and Politics of Stabilizing Transition.

Assessments and admissions during the first 6 years of a UK medium secure DSPD service (2012)
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Background: Offenders with personality disorder represent a considerable burden on mental health and criminal justice services. Millfields Unit was one of the pilot medium secure units (MSUs) established by the UK Department of Health and Ministry of... Read More about Assessments and admissions during the first 6 years of a UK medium secure DSPD service.

Ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty surrounding the hazards of hydrogen and public views of emergent risks (2012)
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New technologies and emergent risks pose special problems for risk governance and regulation. This paper outlines some of the uncertainties about the hazards of hydrogen energy and examines qualitative evidence from recent deliberative Citizens Panel... Read More about Ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty surrounding the hazards of hydrogen and public views of emergent risks.

Using equality to challenge austerity: New actors, old problems (2012)
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This article critically examines the potential for 'new actors' in industrial relations to use developments in equality law to challenge government economic policy. The author draws on documentary analysis of the Fawcett Society's attempt to gain a j... Read More about Using equality to challenge austerity: New actors, old problems.

Multi objective resource scheduling in LTE networks using reinforcement learning (2012)
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The use of the intelligent packet scheduling process is absolutely necessary in order to make the radio resources usage more efficient in recent high-bit-rate demanding radio access technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Packet scheduling pr... Read More about Multi objective resource scheduling in LTE networks using reinforcement learning.

"I'm a Greek Kiwi": Constructing Greekness in Discourse (2012)
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The article reports on the preliminary findings of a project on the constructions of Greekness in modern diasporas. The discussion draws on data from the self-identified Greek community of Wellington, New Zealand. Interview data, ethnographic diaries... Read More about "I'm a Greek Kiwi": Constructing Greekness in Discourse.

Freedom of expression and hatred of religion (2012)
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The UK's Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it an offence to deliberately stir up hatred against people on religious grounds. For its supporters, the Act offers necessary protection to a range of groups that are vulnerable to the harmful effe... Read More about Freedom of expression and hatred of religion.

Investigating a cascade of seven hydraulically connected microbial fuel cells (2012)
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Seven miniature microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were hydraulically linked in sequence and operated in continuous-flow (cascade). Power output and treatment efficiency were investigated using varying organic loads, flow-rates and electrical configurations... Read More about Investigating a cascade of seven hydraulically connected microbial fuel cells.

Social anxiety in higher education (2012)
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Although anxiety is accepted as part of the learning process, there is little thought given to the impact of social anxiety. Yet social anxiety in learning situations such as seminars and presentations can inhibit student participation and impair the... Read More about Social anxiety in higher education.

Just one click: A content analysis of advertisements on teen web sites (2012)
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Purpose: The current study provides a comprehensive analysis of the content of advertisements on Web sites targeted at adolescents, with a particular focus on the female beauty ideal. Methods: Advertisements (N = 631) from 14 Web sites popular with a... Read More about Just one click: A content analysis of advertisements on teen web sites.

Longings for Berlin: Exploring the workings of the psycho-social imaginary in British migration (2012)
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This article explores the ways in which the dominant tropes and spaces of Berlin are used affectively and imaginatively to create meaning for individual migrants as psycho-social agents with unique biographies. Depth interpretation, drawing upon psyc... Read More about Longings for Berlin: Exploring the workings of the psycho-social imaginary in British migration.

Questioning the use value of qualitative research findings (2012)
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In this paper the use value of qualitative research findings to nurses in practice is questioned. More precisely it is argued that, insofar as action follows belief then, in all but the rarest of cases, the beliefs that nurses in practice can justifi... Read More about Questioning the use value of qualitative research findings.

The shifting nature of women's experiences and perceptions of ductal carcinoma in situ (2012)
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Aim. This paper is a report of a descriptive qualitative study of the evolution of women's perceptions and experiences of ductal carcinoma in situ from the period near to diagnosis to 1year later. Background. Ductal carcinoma in situ is a non-invasiv... Read More about The shifting nature of women's experiences and perceptions of ductal carcinoma in situ.

Human trafficking in the UK: A focus on children (2012)
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Human trafficking is on the rise. Whether for sexual exploitation or forced labour, women, men and children are being trafficked to and inside the UK. In July 2011 the new UK strategy on human trafficking was published by the Home Office. It promise... Read More about Human trafficking in the UK: A focus on children.

Using graded motor imagery for complex regional pain syndrome in clinical practice: Failure to improve pain (2012)
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There is good evidence from studies conducted in a single-centre research setting for the efficacy of graded motor imagery (GMI) treatment, a complex physiotherapy intervention, to reduce pain in long-standing complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). H... Read More about Using graded motor imagery for complex regional pain syndrome in clinical practice: Failure to improve pain.

Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach? (2012)
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Learning is widespread in invertebrates. However, whether social insects improve their recruitment skills with experience is only beginning to be investigated. Tandem running is a one-to-one form of recruitment used by certain species of ant. It is a... Read More about Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach?.