All Outputs (923)

Briefing: Status of occupational safety and health in GCC construction (2019)
Journal Article

The construction projects in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-member countries are peaking as the region is in the stage of improving its infrastructures. This briefing presents the current status of occupational safety and health in the region by prov... Read More about Briefing: Status of occupational safety and health in GCC construction.

Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis (2019)
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The incorporation of corpus linguistics (CL) methods within critical discourse analysis (CDA) has increasingly gathered momentum over the last decade. This paper surveys studies using this triangulated framework, drawing on a database of 121 studies... Read More about Towards a decade of synergising corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis.

Rallying the power of place (2019)
Journal Article

This article, aimed at local governance policy-makers, outlines a new way of conceptualising local leadership, described as New Civic Leadership (NCL). NCL, which involves strong, place-based leadership acting to co-create new solutions to public pol... Read More about Rallying the power of place.

Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research (2019)
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© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This review provides a critical overview of what has been learnt about commuting’s impact on subjective wellbeing (SWB). It is structured around a con... Read More about Commuting and wellbeing: A critical overview of the literature with implications for policy and future research.

The Small Towns conundrum: What do we do about them? (2019)
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Small Towns have long been seen as an important element in Europe’s urban structure, currently around 24.2% of the European population live in them. Despite this, we know relatively little about them and there is insufficient recognition of the role... Read More about The Small Towns conundrum: What do we do about them?.

Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients (2019)
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A major growth area in social science research this century has been access to highly sensitive confidential microdata, often via restricted-access remote facilities. These allow researchers highly unlimited access to manipulate the data but with che... Read More about Analyzing the disclosure risk of regression coefficients.

Nutritional status deterioration occurs frequently during childrens’ intensive care unit stay (2019)
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OBJECTIVES: Malnutrition and faltering growth at PICU admission have been related to suboptimal outcomes. However, little is known about nutritional status deterioration during PICU stay, as critical illness is characterized by a profound and complex... Read More about Nutritional status deterioration occurs frequently during childrens’ intensive care unit stay.

Bamboo hybrids bolster timber (2019)
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A relatively common material is not being embraced fully for building supplies. Interest in bamboo is growing, through research and media campaigning about the material’s environmental benefits, properties and its ability to replace wood, steel and c... Read More about Bamboo hybrids bolster timber.

Mate retention behaviours and jealousy in hypothetical mate-poaching situations: Measuring the effects of sex, context, and rivals’ attributes (2019)
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Individuals have been found to perform a range of behaviours to retain their partners. This study investigated whether potential rivals’ attributes and the situation influence individuals’ intentions to display these mate retention strategies. Univer... Read More about Mate retention behaviours and jealousy in hypothetical mate-poaching situations: Measuring the effects of sex, context, and rivals’ attributes.

Race to lunar space (2019)
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Who is Flying Less for Environmental Reasons (2019)
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Many previous studies have shown how people with pro-environmental attitudes tend to fly more than the general population. This study examines the minority who have reduced their flying for environmental reasons. It used an online questionnaire dis... Read More about Who is Flying Less for Environmental Reasons.

Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model (2019)
Journal Article

We present a New Keynesian model in which a fraction n of agents are fully rational, and a fraction 1 − n of agents are bounded rational. After deriving a simple reduced form, we demonstrate that the Taylor condition is sufficient for determinacy and... Read More about Learning, heterogeneity, and complexity in the New Keynesian model.

Educational attainment and the Brexit vote (2019)
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The Brexit vote is the most significant political event in recent British history. We present bivariate choropleth maps comparing the Leave vote share with age-adjusted secondary educational attainment. This provides an immediate visual representatio... Read More about Educational attainment and the Brexit vote.

Molecular basis of methylation and chain-length programming in a fungal iterative highly reducing polyketide synthase (2019)
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Exchange of 32 different sub-fragments of the C-methyltransferase (C-MeT), pseudo-ketoreductase (ΨKR) and ketoreductase (KR) catalytic domains of the tenellin iterative Type I polyketide synthase non ribosomal peptide synthetase (PKS-NRPS) TENS by ho... Read More about Molecular basis of methylation and chain-length programming in a fungal iterative highly reducing polyketide synthase.

Assessing a simplified procedure to reconcile distributed renewable and interactive energy systems and urban patterns. The case study of school buildings in Rome (2019)
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Distributed, Renewable and Interactive energy Systems (DRIs) are revolutionizing the concept of infrastructure by introducing a set of new properties. The implications of the new system properties in the realm of Urban Design are often neglected. Thi... Read More about Assessing a simplified procedure to reconcile distributed renewable and interactive energy systems and urban patterns. The case study of school buildings in Rome.

Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business? (2019)
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Whilst creative behaviours are viewed as twenty-first century competencies [Davies, L.M., L.D. Newton, and D.P. Newton. 2017. “Creativity As a Twenty-First-Century Competence: An Exploratory Study of Provision and Reality.” Education 3–13, 879–891.],... Read More about Creativity within the foundation phase curriculum: A risky business?.

Rapid, automated, test, verification and validation for the CubeSats (2019)
Journal Article

Bringing up of a small-scale mission assurance and engineering workflow is described. The experiences learned in the ZACUBE-1 mission prompted the development of an automated systems engineering platform leading
to conformity in system design, test,... Read More about Rapid, automated, test, verification and validation for the CubeSats.

Bank-lending channel of monetary policy transmission: Evidence from ASEAN (2019)
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This article examines the existence of a bank-lending channel in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) using a sample of 328 banks from 2009 to 2015. The findings confirm that a bank-lending channel is effective. In particular, we find that... Read More about Bank-lending channel of monetary policy transmission: Evidence from ASEAN.

Differences in stakeholder ability in addressing unethical practices: Insights from the surveying profession (2019)
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While several measures have been suggested to address unethical practices within the built environment, it remains unclear whether some stakeholders are more able to influence improvement in unethical practices than others, and if so whether such phe... Read More about Differences in stakeholder ability in addressing unethical practices: Insights from the surveying profession.

What are the barriers to accessing psychological therapy in Qatar: A concept mapping study (2019)
Journal Article

Introduction: Mental health problems are highly prevalent throughout the world; however, all too frequently individuals do not receive treatment. Psychological therapy is a potentially successful intervention but barriers to access are likely to vary... Read More about What are the barriers to accessing psychological therapy in Qatar: A concept mapping study.