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The grey escape: Investigating older people's use of the free bus pass (2012)
Journal Article

Since 2008 most older people in England have benefited from unlimited area-wide free travel by bus after the morning peak period. The official policy rhetoric supporting implementation of the measure drew significantly on the need to reduce social ex... Read More about The grey escape: Investigating older people's use of the free bus pass.

Building a client state: American arms policies towards Iran, 1950-1963 (2012)
Journal Article

Precious little has been written in academic scholarship about the US arms relationship with Iran. Much of the scholarly focus has been drained into an orbital vortex caused by twin crises in Iranian history: the 1953 British and American sponsored c... Read More about Building a client state: American arms policies towards Iran, 1950-1963.

The future of urban living through the lens of 'climate change'? Insights from American initiatives (2012)
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Commentary

Rating or no rating: That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies (2012)
Journal Article

The aim of this paper is to examine the main determinants of the rating likelihood of UK companies. We use a binary probit specification to model the main drivers of a firm’s propensity to be rated. Using a sample of 245 non-financial UK companies ov... Read More about Rating or no rating: That is the question: An empirical examination of UK companies.

Accounting for the Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired People in Public Realm Design (2012)
Journal Article

Public realm schemes are being introduced in urban areas without the usual delineation between the footway and carriageway provided by kerb edges. Concern has been expressed about the resulting spaces on behalf of the approximately two million people... Read More about Accounting for the Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired People in Public Realm Design.

Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: Social research in politically sensitive locations (2012)
Journal Article

Cuba, a country that is often portrayed as an isolated, secretive and bureaucratic dictatorship, would appear to present many challenges for a social researcher intent on eliciting the genuine opinions of the native population. However, in December 2... Read More about Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: Social research in politically sensitive locations.

Legal rights for people who 'Live Apart Together'? (2012)
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About 10% of adults in Britain have a living apart together (LAT) relationship; they are nearly always administratively and legally defined as single but in fact they have a partner who lives elsewhere. The question then arises, should LAT couples ha... Read More about Legal rights for people who 'Live Apart Together'?.

Developing a validated urinary diary: Phase 1 (2012)
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Aims: To develop and validate a urinary diary, using the psychometric validation protocol applied to all International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire (ICIQ) modules. Methods: Patient and clinician opinion was sought on diary content, form... Read More about Developing a validated urinary diary: Phase 1.

R^{4}Syn: Relative referenceless receiver/receiver time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (2012)
Journal Article

A new time synchronization protocol for wireless sensor networks (WSN) is proposed. It uses the receiver-to-receiver principle introduced by the Reference Broadcast Synchronization (RBS), which reduces the time-critical path compared to the sender-to... Read More about R^{4}Syn: Relative referenceless receiver/receiver time synchronization in wireless sensor networks.

The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation (2012)
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This study examines the determinants of the decision of UK non-financial companies to solicit a credit rating drawing upon the information asymmetry, signalling, agency and default literature. The paper extends the current literature on the determina... Read More about The rating decision and the determinants of credit ratings: A UK empirical investigation.

Long-range epigenetic silencing of chromosome 5q31 protocadherins is involved in early and late stages of colorectal tumorigenesis through modulation of oncogenic pathways (2012)
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Loss of tumor suppressor gene function can occur as a result of epigenetic silencing of large chromosomal regions, referred to as long-range epigenetic silencing (LRES) and genome-wide analyses have revealed that LRES is present in many cancer types.... Read More about Long-range epigenetic silencing of chromosome 5q31 protocadherins is involved in early and late stages of colorectal tumorigenesis through modulation of oncogenic pathways.

A CBFSA approach to resolve the distributed manufacturing process planning problem in a supply chain environment (2012)
Journal Article

In this competitive world cost and lead time reduction are of prime concern for manufacturing firms. To achieve this objective manufacturing entities are adopting several management philosophies such as Total Quality Management (TQM), just-in-time (J... Read More about A CBFSA approach to resolve the distributed manufacturing process planning problem in a supply chain environment.

The Effects of Legal, Normative, and Cultural-Cognitive Institutions on Innovation in Technology Alliances (2012)
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•Adopting an institutional lens, this paper examines the interaction between different levels of legal, normative and cultural-cognitive institutions on the level of innovation associated with the choice of alliance governance mechanism as equity or... Read More about The Effects of Legal, Normative, and Cultural-Cognitive Institutions on Innovation in Technology Alliances.

Urine utilisation by microbial fuel cells; Energy fuel for the future (2012)
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This communication reports for the first time the direct utilisation of urine in MFCs for the production of electricity. Different conversion efficiencies were recorded, depending on the amount treated. Elements such as N, P, K can be locked into new... Read More about Urine utilisation by microbial fuel cells; Energy fuel for the future.

Entrepreneurship in deprived urban communities: The case of Wales (2012)
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The potential of entrepreneurial activity for rejuvenating deprived communities has been recognised by policymakers, especially with regard to reducing unemployment. Utilising data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in conjunction with th... Read More about Entrepreneurship in deprived urban communities: The case of Wales.

Transformative processes of agency: Information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves (2012)
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New media technologies are becoming an increasingly prominent constituent of everyday living, with their proliferation presenting new challenges to key aspects of the self, namely agency and identity. The potential recalibration of these notions come... Read More about Transformative processes of agency: Information technologies and the production of digitally mediated selves.

Towards the cybernetic mind (2012)
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Humans naturally interface transparently with tools, thus extending through them. Advancing technology has finally produced tools that begin to match our capacities, integrating them more transparently with our minds. We move from tool users towards... Read More about Towards the cybernetic mind.

An extreme analysis for the 2010 precipitation event at the south of Saskatchewan prairie (2012)
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After a prolonged drought period in the early 2000s, the Canadian prairie experienced a remarkably wet year in 2010. Five stations near the edge of the Saskatchewan boreal forest recorded historically high cumulative precipitation (from April to Sept... Read More about An extreme analysis for the 2010 precipitation event at the south of Saskatchewan prairie.

Surrogacy families 10 years on: Relationship with the surrogate, decisions over disclosure and children's understanding of their surrogacy origins (2012)
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BACKGROUND This study aimed to prospectively examine families created using surrogacy over a 10-year period in the UK with respect to intending parents' and children's relationship with the surrogate mother, parents' decisions over disclosure and chi... Read More about Surrogacy families 10 years on: Relationship with the surrogate, decisions over disclosure and children's understanding of their surrogacy origins.

Apparent height and body mass index influence perceived leadership ability in three-dimensional faces (2012)
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Facial appearance has a well-documented effect on perceived leadership ability. Face judgments of leadership ability predict political election outcomes across the world, and similar judgments of business CEOs predict company profits. Body height is... Read More about Apparent height and body mass index influence perceived leadership ability in three-dimensional faces.