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The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders (2008)
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Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about The new architectures of intimacy? Social networking sites and genders.

Women's History Review: Introduction (2008)
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This article is an introduction to a special issue on the history of single women based on papers given at conference held in June 2006 at the University of the West of England, entitled ‘Single Women in History 1000–2000’. The analysis is based on o... Read More about Women's History Review: Introduction.

Media on ice (2008)
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Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Media on ice.

Life satisfication in Malawi and the importance of relative consumption, polygamy and religion (2008)
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Happiness equations for Malawi are estimated using a new household survey. It is apparent that absolute consumption level is strongly associated with satisfaction. Both objective and subjective relative consumption in the neighbourhood is positively... Read More about Life satisfication in Malawi and the importance of relative consumption, polygamy and religion.

Redox regulation and trapping sulphenic acid in the peroxide sensitive human mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase (2008)
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The human branched chain aminotransferase enzymes are key regulators of glutamate metabolism in the brain and are among a growing number of redox-sensitive proteins. Studies that use thiol-specific reagents and electrospray ionization mass spectromet... Read More about Redox regulation and trapping sulphenic acid in the peroxide sensitive human mitochondrial branched chain aminotransferase.

Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber (2008)
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In this interview, Samuel Weber discusses two recent books that explore issues of contemporary media and politics, Targets of Opportunity and Theatricality as Medium. Targeting is identified as a modality of conceiving the world that is as old as wes... Read More about Targeting, television and networking: An interview with Samuel Weber.

Global ethics and the role of academics (2008)
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Academics have a social and professional responsibility that stems from their individual duties as global citizens. With their privileged position as lifelong learners they need to assess carefully where they direct their attention for research, thei... Read More about Global ethics and the role of academics.

Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign (2008)
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Between March and December 2008 Jane Arthurs was co-editor, with Usha Zacharias, of the Commentary and Criticism Section of this journal, which included topical short essays themed around issues of significance to feminist media studies either from a... Read More about Rhetorical parallels between the national woman suffrage association and Clinton's campaign.

Perceptions of physiotherapy provision of 2085 patients following primary joint replacement (2008)
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OTRI: agenda de investigacion (2008)
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The present paper presents different lines of work in order to extend the current empirical research about the role of the technology transfer offices (TTO). Those lines of research come from the new advances in the micro economic analysis of TTOs an... Read More about OTRI: agenda de investigacion.

Book review: Chris Mallin and Kean Ow-Yong, Corporate governance in alternative investment market (AIM) companies x+119pp., £15.00, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (2008) ISBN 978-1-904574-44-6 (2008)
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Book review for the British Accounting Review

Multiculturalism without multiple cultures? (2008)
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Phase clustering in globally coupled photochemical oscillators (2008)
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We experimentally investigate the formation of clusters in a population of globally coupled photochemical oscillators. The system consists of catalytic micro-particles in Belousov-Zhabotinsky solution and the coupling exploits the excitatory properti... Read More about Phase clustering in globally coupled photochemical oscillators.

Reforming the children and young people's workforce: A Higher Education response (2008)
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The Every Child Matters change agenda is leading to the creation of new services and new working practices across the children and young people’s sectors. These new configurations are leading to the development of new roles that do not necessarily fi... Read More about Reforming the children and young people's workforce: A Higher Education response.

In from the margins and back again: 25 years of policy. Young people, sexuality and gender (2008)
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A non-randomized comparison of e-learning and classroom delivery of basic life support with automated external defibrillator use: A pilot study (2008)
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This pilot study investigated whether computer-based learning package followed by practical instruction and traditional classroom methods were comparable in developing knowledge and skills in basic life support with automated external defibrillator.... Read More about A non-randomized comparison of e-learning and classroom delivery of basic life support with automated external defibrillator use: A pilot study.

Real-time ultrasound measurements of changes in suboccipital vertebral artery diameter and blood flow velocity associated with cervical spine rotation (2008)
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Background and Purpose. The vulnerability of the vertebral artery (VA) to distortion with sustained, full-range cervical spine rotation, resulting in compromised blood flow and possible vertebrobasilar ischaemia, is well recognized. However, few stud... Read More about Real-time ultrasound measurements of changes in suboccipital vertebral artery diameter and blood flow velocity associated with cervical spine rotation.

Beyond these voices: M. E. Braddon and the ghost of sensationalism (2008)
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This article engages with Braddon's use of the supernatural to argue that her images of spiritualism reveal connections between theatricality, writing and her popular reputation.

The fetal tissue economy: From the abortion clinic to the stem cell laboratory (2008)
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This paper examines the exchange relationships between women undergoing abortion, the clinicians who procure fetal tissue and stem cell scientists in Britain, and argues that the fetal tissue economy is an important dimension of the gendered bioecono... Read More about The fetal tissue economy: From the abortion clinic to the stem cell laboratory.

Rapid reform and unfinished business: The development of education in independent Latvia 1991-2007 (2008)
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Education in Latvia has changed a great deal in the last 15 years. The development of an independent and democratic state system has creatively combined elements of foreign experience and influence with the enrichment and further development of featu... Read More about Rapid reform and unfinished business: The development of education in independent Latvia 1991-2007.