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Breath ammonia levels in a normal human population study as determined by photoacoustic laser spectroscopy (2011)
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Photoacoustic laser spectroscopy was used as a technique to measure real-time levels of ammonia in exhaled human breath in a small, locally recruited, normal healthy population (n = 30). This yielded an average level of breath ammonia of 265 ppb, ran... Read More about Breath ammonia levels in a normal human population study as determined by photoacoustic laser spectroscopy.

Modern life is rubbish (2011)
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Editorial

The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy (2011)
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© 2011, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This paper addresses some of the debates about citizen involvement in decisions about science and technological innovation. It describes some of the claims and scientific uncertainties surrounding hydr... Read More about The Mirage of Citizen Engagement in Uncertain Science: Public attitudes towards hydrogen energy.

Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh (2011)
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The former Maze Prison/Long Kesh in Lisburn, near Belfast, is one of the primary sites associated with the 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. Controversy about the site's future makes it clear that the redevelopment of contested heritage cannot be d... Read More about Decision-making and contested heritage in Northern Ireland: The former maze prison/long kesh.

Editorial: Gender equality and modernization of public sector employment (2011)
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Still 'a good job for a woman'? Women teachers' experiences of modernization in England and Wales (2011)
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This article examines women teachers' experiences of modernization in schools in England and Wales. The article explores the impact of modernization on their work and non-work lives and why, in some cases, modernization has made it impossible for the... Read More about Still 'a good job for a woman'? Women teachers' experiences of modernization in England and Wales.

Distributed leadership in organizations: A review of theory and research (2011)
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The aim of this paper is to review conceptual and empirical literature on the concept of distributed leadership (DL) in order to identify its origins, key arguments, and areas for further work. Consideration is given to the similarities and differenc... Read More about Distributed leadership in organizations: A review of theory and research.

Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration (2011)
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The EU, through the Cardiff and the Gothenburg strategies, sought to counter what was seen as fragmented and uncoordinated environmental policy development by promoting a broad and integrated approach to sustainability. This article seeks to assess t... Read More about Understanding sustainability policy: Governance, knowledge and the search for integration.

Identification of key performance indicators for measuring the performance of value management studies in construction (2011)
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Value management (VM) is widely regarded as a useful tool for management to meet the challenges, such as limited resources and tight schedules arising in the construction industry. A rigorous measurement on the performance of VM studies is likely to... Read More about Identification of key performance indicators for measuring the performance of value management studies in construction.

Conceptualizing age-friendly communities (2011)
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On the political and policy front, interest has increased in making communities more "age-friendly", an ongoing trend since the World Health Organization launched its global Age-Friendly Cities project. We conceptualize age-friendly communities by bu... Read More about Conceptualizing age-friendly communities.

State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations (2011)
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Over the last three decades, new concepts, strategies, frameworks and systems have been developed to tackle the sustainable development issue. This paper reviews the challenges, perspectives and recent advances in support of sustainable production op... Read More about State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations.

Resident participation in housing regeneration in France (2011)
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The involvement of local residents in housing regeneration policy and practice has become a 'new orthodoxy' across Western Europe. This paper considers the experience of France, a country noted for its history of 'third sector' activism and innovativ... Read More about Resident participation in housing regeneration in France.

Development management and localism: Zeitgeist or lasting change? (2011)
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The spatial planning approach has become accepted as the progressive theoretical and professional currency in England following the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act. The reforms which followed sought considerable change in the remit of plan... Read More about Development management and localism: Zeitgeist or lasting change?.

Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history (2011)
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Beyond greener pastures: exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history The history of immigrant Filipino nurses in Canada has received little attention, yet Canada is a major receiving country of a growing num... Read More about Beyond greener pastures: Exploring contexts surrounding Filipino nurse migration in Canada through oral history.

Spatial variations in airborne microorganism and endotoxin concentrations at green waste composting facilities (2011)
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The emission and dispersal of bioaerosols from open-air commercial composting facilities continues to be contentious. A meta-dataset enumerating cultivable microorganism emission and downwind concentrations is not yet available. A dataset derived fro... Read More about Spatial variations in airborne microorganism and endotoxin concentrations at green waste composting facilities.

At the edge of semantic space: The breakdown of coherent concepts in semantic dementia is constrained by typicality and severity but not modality (2011)
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Hub-and-spoke models of semantic representation suggest that coherent concepts are formed from the integration of multiple, modality-specific information sources with additional modality-invariant representations-most likely stored in the ventrolater... Read More about At the edge of semantic space: The breakdown of coherent concepts in semantic dementia is constrained by typicality and severity but not modality.

Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning (2011)
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This essay compares the genres of the dramatic monologue and detective fiction in terms of their contemporaneous development and respective reading processes. Drawing on narratological categories, it examines the emphasis in both genres on the withho... Read More about Dramatic monologue, detective fiction and the search for meaning.

Does Asia’s choice of exchange rate regime affect Europe’s exposure to US shocks? (2011)
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In this paper we use a stylised three-country model to analyse how the transmission of US shocks to Europe might be affected by Asia’s choice of exchange rate regime. We find that if Asia pegs her exchange rate to the dollar, the impact of US shocks... Read More about Does Asia’s choice of exchange rate regime affect Europe’s exposure to US shocks?.

U.S. core inflation: A wavelet analysis (2011)
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This paper proposes the use of wavelet methods to estimate U.S. core inflation. It explains wavelet methods and suggests that they are ideally suited to this task. Comparisons are made with traditional Consumer Price Index-based and regression-based... Read More about U.S. core inflation: A wavelet analysis.

"it's a comparison thing, isn't it?": Lesbian and bisexual women's accounts of how partner relationships shape their feelings about their body and appearance (2011)
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Women's feelings about their body and their appearance are an important aspect of their lives, yet little is known about the ways in which partner relationships shape these feelings.There has been some debate about whether or not same-sex relationshi... Read More about "it's a comparison thing, isn't it?": Lesbian and bisexual women's accounts of how partner relationships shape their feelings about their body and appearance.