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Agency, identity, and the great crisis: A veblenian perspective (2012)
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Wrenn, M. (2012). Agency, identity, and the great crisis: A veblenian perspective. Journal of Economic Issues, 46(2), 403-410. https://doi.org/10.2753/JEI0021-3624460215

Within neoliberalism, an individual's agency and identity are fundamentally different than at any other stage in human development. The argument set forth is that within neoliberalism, agency and identity are, respectively, falsified and fluid, which... Read More about Agency, identity, and the great crisis: A veblenian perspective.

Microbial volatile compounds in health and disease conditions (2012)
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Thorn, R., & Greenman, J. (2012). Microbial volatile compounds in health and disease conditions. Journal of Breath Research, 6(2), 024001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1752-7155/6/2/024001

Microbial cultures and/or microbial associated diseases often have a characteristic smell. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are produced by all microorganisms as part of their normal metabolism. The types and classes of VOC produced is wide, includi... Read More about Microbial volatile compounds in health and disease conditions.

The effect of stimulus number on the stability of responses for an extensive heat pain test (2012)
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Martin, D. J., Palmer, S. T., & Tan, C. W. (2012). The effect of stimulus number on the stability of responses for an extensive heat pain test. Somatosensory and Motor Research, 29(2), 62-69. https://doi.org/10.3109/08990220.2012.671203

Background.The use of relatively lower stimulus presentation numbers in quantitative sensory testing may influence the computation accuracy of participants' discriminability. The minimum trial number for obtaining a stabilized participant discriminat... Read More about The effect of stimulus number on the stability of responses for an extensive heat pain test.

Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce (2012)
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Ng, I., Parry, G., Smith, L., Maull, R., & Briscoe, G. (2012). Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce. Journal of Service Management, 23(3), 416-439. https://doi.org/10.1108/09564231211248480

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a visualisation of the firm's offering from a service-dominant logic (S-DLogic) perspective. The case of Rolls-Royce is presented as an avenue through which to explore an alternative view of the firm's... Read More about Transitioning from a goods-dominant to a service-dominant logic: Visualising the value proposition of Rolls-Royce.

Food sustainability education as a route to healthier eating: Evaluation of a multi-component school programme in English primary schools (2012)
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Morley, A., Salmon, D., Jones, M., Dailami, N., Weitkamp, E., Kimberlee, R., & Orme, J. (2012). Food sustainability education as a route to healthier eating: Evaluation of a multi-component school programme in English primary schools. Health Education Research, 27(3), 448-458. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cys016

Promising approaches to the promotion of healthier eating among children in primary school settings include the opportunity to practise practical cooking and growing, promoting the take up of healthier school meals and nutritional education. However,... Read More about Food sustainability education as a route to healthier eating: Evaluation of a multi-component school programme in English primary schools.

Managing Capital Accounts in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis (2012)
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Gabor, D. (2012). Managing Capital Accounts in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis. Journal of Development Studies, 48(6), 714-731. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2011.649257

AbstractThe global financial crisis forcefully highlighted the importance of curbing the impact of large and volatile capital inflows on growth and financial stability in developing countries. It led the IMF to reconsider its long-standing rejection... Read More about Managing Capital Accounts in Emerging Markets: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis.

The MLQ factor structure in a UK context (2012)
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Edwards, G., Schyns, B., Gill, R., & Higgs, M. (2012). The MLQ factor structure in a UK context. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 33(4), 369-382. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437731211229304

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factor structure of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) in a UK context. For a number of years studies have failed to reproduce the original MLQ factor structure. A paper published i... Read More about The MLQ factor structure in a UK context.

A nurse-led mental health service for people with multiple sclerosis (2012)
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David, A. S., Askey-Jones, S., Silber, E., Shaw, P., & Gray, R. (2012). A nurse-led mental health service for people with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 72(6), 463-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2012.01.020

Background: Mental health problems are under recognised and under treated in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Method: A nurse-led project linking MS and mental health services was evaluated. Data on all referrals and management from 2006 to 2008... Read More about A nurse-led mental health service for people with multiple sclerosis.

Community Participation in Spatial Planning: Exploring Relationships between Professional and Lay Stakeholders (2012)
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Curry, N. (2012). Community Participation in Spatial Planning: Exploring Relationships between Professional and Lay Stakeholders. Local Government Studies, 38(3), 345-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2011.642948

The literature that explores relationships between lay and professional stakeholders in community participation generally suggests that professionals perceive five main difficulties in working with lay people: it is unnecessary within democracies; la... Read More about Community Participation in Spatial Planning: Exploring Relationships between Professional and Lay Stakeholders.

Resource integration (2012)
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Woratschek, H., Peters, L. D., Kleinaltenkamp, M., Brodie, R. J., Frow, P., & Hughes, T. (2012). Resource integration. Marketing Theory, 12(2), 201-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470593111429512

We identify five themes relevant to gaining a clearer understanding of the role of social and economic factors in resource integration. The themes and the broad relationships between them are conceptualized in Figure 1. Here we identify actors who po... Read More about Resource integration.

Candidate Selection in British Second Order Elections: A Comparison of Electoral System and Party Strategy Effects (2012)
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Evans, E., & Harrison, L. (2012). Candidate Selection in British Second Order Elections: A Comparison of Electoral System and Party Strategy Effects. Journal of Legislative Studies, 18(2), 242-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2012.673067

Whilst most UK political parties have now accepted the need to increase the number of women representatives, the stark reality is that women remain under-represented. The under-representation of women in UK politics is not just evident in the nationa... Read More about Candidate Selection in British Second Order Elections: A Comparison of Electoral System and Party Strategy Effects.

Professionals' understanding of government strategies for the management of child sexual abusers (2012)
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McCartan, K. (2012). Professionals' understanding of government strategies for the management of child sexual abusers. Probation Journal, 59(2), 124-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550512438603

This article discusses contemporary professional understandings of the UK Government's attitudes to and policies around the management of child sexual abusers. This study is based upon empirical qualitative research with a range of professionals' wor... Read More about Professionals' understanding of government strategies for the management of child sexual abusers.

Post G20: The Challenge of Change, Implementing Evidence-based Public Order Policing (2012)
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Hoggett, J., & Stott, C. (2012). Post G20: The Challenge of Change, Implementing Evidence-based Public Order Policing. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 9(2), 174-183. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1360

In the wake of the 2011 'riots', public order policing tactics in England and Wales have once again been brought into question. Yet, the riots came two years since police regulatory authorities in the UK called for fundamental reforms to the policing... Read More about Post G20: The Challenge of Change, Implementing Evidence-based Public Order Policing.

Higher education in further education: Capturing and promoting HEness (2012)
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Lea, J., & Simmons, J. (2012). Higher education in further education: Capturing and promoting HEness. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 17(2), 179-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2012.673888

This article discusses the implications of continuing to support the delivery of higher education (HE) in further education (FE) settings. Although a critical mass of students studying HE in Further Education Colleges (FECs) is significant in sustain... Read More about Higher education in further education: Capturing and promoting HEness.

Estimating meme fitness in adaptive memetic algorithms for combinatorial problems (2012)
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Smith, J. (2012). Estimating meme fitness in adaptive memetic algorithms for combinatorial problems. Evolutionary Computation, 20(2), 165-188. https://doi.org/10.1162/EVCO_a_00060

Among the most promising and active research areas in heuristic optimisation is the field of adaptive memetic algorithms (AMAs). These gain much of their reported robustness by adapting the probability with which each of a set of local improvement op... Read More about Estimating meme fitness in adaptive memetic algorithms for combinatorial problems.

Financialized corporate strategies and restructuring of global supply chains (2012)
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Newman, S. (2012). Financialized corporate strategies and restructuring of global supply chains

Industrial organization and Inter-firm relations within vertically disintegrated and spatially dispersed production systems emerged as a burgeoning area of research in the 1990s and 2000s across what might be broadly considered as development studies... Read More about Financialized corporate strategies and restructuring of global supply chains.

Filtered and unfiltered permeability: The European and Anglo-Saxon approaches (2012)
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Melia, S. (2012). Filtered and unfiltered permeability: The European and Anglo-Saxon approaches. PROJECT: Journal of the Department of Planning and Architecture, 4, 6-9

Unfiltered permeability refers to road layouts which provide equal permeability for all modes. Filtered permeability means separating the sustainable modes from private motor traffic in order to give them an advantage in terms of speed, distance and... Read More about Filtered and unfiltered permeability: The European and Anglo-Saxon approaches.