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Dividend policy and earnings management: An empirical study of Pakistani listed companies (2011)
Journal Article

Dividend policy is one of the widely addressed topics in financial management. It is an important duty of a financial manager to formulate the company's dividend policy that is in the best interest of the company. Many a time financial managers are i... Read More about Dividend policy and earnings management: An empirical study of Pakistani listed companies.

Improved one-dimensional unsteady modeling of thermally choked ram accelerator in subdetonative velocity regime (2011)
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The subdetonative propulsion mode using thermal choking has been studied with a one-dimensional (1D) real gas model that included projectile acceleration. Numerical results from a control volume analysis that accounted for unsteady flow effects estab... Read More about Improved one-dimensional unsteady modeling of thermally choked ram accelerator in subdetonative velocity regime.

A longitudinal study of recipients' views and experiences of intra-family egg donation (2011)
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BACKGROUND
For the past 10 years, we have been carrying out a longitudinal investigation of egg donation families in the UK; a subsample of recipients in these families had a child by egg donation from a sister or sister-in-law. In response to the c... Read More about A longitudinal study of recipients' views and experiences of intra-family egg donation.

Improving road transport-related air quality in England through joint working between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners (2011)
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In this paper the necessity for effective joint working arrangements between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners is demonstrated as a fundamental prerequisite for successful management of traffic-related air quality in English local... Read More about Improving road transport-related air quality in England through joint working between Environmental Health Officers and Transport Planners.

Hatching neonates of Sibon annulatus (Günther, 1872) in a Manicaria swamp forest, Costa Rica (2011)
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Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management (2011)
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Much work is underway within the broad next generation emerging technologies community on issues associated with the development of services to foster synergies and collaboration via the integration of distributed and heterogeneous resources, systems... Read More about Utilizing next generation emerging technologies for enabling collective computational intelligence in disaster management.

Managerial practices of quality costing: An evidence-based framework (2011)
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Purpose: This paper aims to use empirical data to classify and contextualize the various practices of quality costing. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses 23 "best practices" of quality costing extracted from the literature to survey quality... Read More about Managerial practices of quality costing: An evidence-based framework.

Critical parameters influencing value for money variations in PFI projects in the healthcare and transport sectors (2011)
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Achieving good value for money (VFM) is the principal objective of any private finance initiative (PFI) project while sustaining it throughout the contract life is the greatest challenge. Empirical evidence is required to understand uncertainties sur... Read More about Critical parameters influencing value for money variations in PFI projects in the healthcare and transport sectors.

Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters' travel behavior (2011)
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Spitsmijden, peak avoidance in Dutch, is the largest systematic effort to date to study, in the field, the potential of rewards as a policy mean for changing commuter behavior. A 13. week field study was organized in The Netherlands with the purpose... Read More about Rewarding rush-hour avoidance: A study of commuters' travel behavior.

A randomised, controlled study of outcome and cost effectiveness for RA patients attending nurse-led rheumatology clinics: Study protocol of an ongoing nationwide multi-centre study (2011)
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Background: The rise in the number of patients with arthritis coupled with understaffing of medical services has seen the deployment of Clinical Nurse Specialists in running nurse-led clinics alongside the rheumatologist clinics. There are no systema... Read More about A randomised, controlled study of outcome and cost effectiveness for RA patients attending nurse-led rheumatology clinics: Study protocol of an ongoing nationwide multi-centre study.

Supported employment for persons with mental illness: Systematic review of the effectiveness of individual placement and support in the UK (2011)
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Background. High levels of unemployment among persons with mental illness are a significant social disability. The individual placement and support (IPS) model of vocational support has been shown to be effective in establishing persons with mental h... Read More about Supported employment for persons with mental illness: Systematic review of the effectiveness of individual placement and support in the UK.

Dismantling the ivory tower: Engaging geographers in University-Community Partnerships (2011)
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University-community partnerships offer synergistic spaces for communities to address difficulties and universities to meet their missions. Geographers are well positioned to participate in these partnerships, owing to the discipline's integrative na... Read More about Dismantling the ivory tower: Engaging geographers in University-Community Partnerships.

Handshake: Realistic human-robot interaction in haptic enhanced virtual reality (2011)
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This paper focuses on the development and evaluation of a haptic enhanced virtual reality system which allows a human user to make physical handshakes with a virtual partner through a haptic interface. Multimodal feedback signals are designed to gene... Read More about Handshake: Realistic human-robot interaction in haptic enhanced virtual reality.

Industry membership and capital structure dynamics in the UK (2011)
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We examine the impact of industry membership on the capital structure dynamics of UK quoted firms over the period 1968 to 2006 by analysing how the components of common gearing ratios are adjusted in relation to one another. More specifically, if we... Read More about Industry membership and capital structure dynamics in the UK.

Non-unionized young workers and organizing the unorganized (2011)
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Young workers are concentrated in low-waged, poorly organized industries. Although poorly unionized, evidence suggests that they are positively predisposed towards unions. Most research on youth and unionization is attitudinal, however, with little e... Read More about Non-unionized young workers and organizing the unorganized.

Development and evaluation of a device for the haptic rendering of rotatory car doors (2011)
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Virtual prototyping of car doors enhanced with haptic feedback is a promising way to decrease the number of physical prototypes. We clarify, correct, summarize, and extend our previous work on the haptic simulation of car doors. A fundamental issue i... Read More about Development and evaluation of a device for the haptic rendering of rotatory car doors.

Practices and motivations of travellers making rail-cycle trips (2011)
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Currently only 2% of British rail passengers choose to cycle to the station, in contrast to 40% in the Netherlands, but the combination of cycling with rail use presents a potentially attractive alternative to car use with carbon reduction and health... Read More about Practices and motivations of travellers making rail-cycle trips.

Black-boxing sustainability (2011)
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The term ‘sustainable’ has rapidly become a ubiquitous prefix for many contemporary issues, professions and disciplines. This paper contextualizes the debate by exploring how the term ‘sustainable’ has emerged within the field of architecture. The pa... Read More about Black-boxing sustainability.

Children's views of communication and speech-language pathology (2011)
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Children have the right to express their views and influence decisions in matters that affect them. Yet decisions regarding speech-language pathology are often made on their behalf, and research into the perspectives of children who receive speech-la... Read More about Children's views of communication and speech-language pathology.

Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice (2011)
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This article argues for a new way of valuing development control planning practices in a democratic society: as agonistic political engagement. Using Chantal Mouffe's conception of the political, it counters claims that collaborative and consensus se... Read More about Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice.