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Organizing strategic foresight: A contextual practice of 'way finding' (2013)
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Strategic foresight as a derived outcome of corporate foresight exercises has led to the dominant discourse on strategic foresight as an episodic intervention encompassing a proliferation of organizational foresight methodologies. We argue that such... Read More about Organizing strategic foresight: A contextual practice of 'way finding'.

Prepared for commissioning? A qualitative study into the views of recently qualified GPs (2013)
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The new criminal offence of reckless misconduct for bankers (2013)
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Does mandatory adoption of IFRS guarantee compliance? (2013)
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In this study, we examine whether the mandatory adoption of IFRS by Turkish listed companies in 2005 was successful in practice and what role firm and country level factors played in the adoption. We determine the firm-specific factors that affect th... Read More about Does mandatory adoption of IFRS guarantee compliance?.

Should students take smart drugs (2013)
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Darian Meacham picks through the facts and argues that an investigation of human flourishing must play a role in the debate over the ethics of using 'smart drugs'.

Richard Nixon’s Road to Tehran: The Making of the U.S.–Iran Arms Agreement of May 1972 (2013)
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In May 1972, Richard Nixon travelled to Tehran and signed a deal with the shah of Iran that allowed the Iranian monarch to purchase any U.S. weapons system he desired, in any quantity, short of nuclear weapons. This so-called 'blank cheque' was a hig... Read More about Richard Nixon’s Road to Tehran: The Making of the U.S.–Iran Arms Agreement of May 1972.

Influence at work and the desire for more influence (2013)
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What determines whether workers want more influence in their workplace? Much of the literature on employee voice assumes that employees desire a say in how they do their work, and that where they lack influence they are more likely to desire a greate... Read More about Influence at work and the desire for more influence.

Adapting to conversation with semantic dementia: Using enactment as a compensatory strategy in everyday social interaction (2013)
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Background Studies to date in semantic dementia have examined communication in clinical or experimental settings. There is a paucity of research describing the everyday interactional skills and difficulties seen in this condition. Aims To examine the... Read More about Adapting to conversation with semantic dementia: Using enactment as a compensatory strategy in everyday social interaction.

Urine: Waste or resource? The economic and social aspects (2013)
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The impact of thin idealized media images on body satisfaction: Does body appreciation protect women from negative effects? (2013)
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This article examines whether positive body image can protect women from negative media exposure effects. University women (N=112) were randomly allocated to view advertisements featuring ultra-thin models or control images. Women who reported high l... Read More about The impact of thin idealized media images on body satisfaction: Does body appreciation protect women from negative effects?.

Knowledge Exchange as a practice (2013)
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Knowledge Exchange has been a buzz phrase with the UK Research Councils for several years now. Initially this practice was called Knowledge Transfer until it came to be realized that that description was one-way only and that academia might in fact l... Read More about Knowledge Exchange as a practice.

Myths, reality, and sexual violence: Changing attitudes, changing practice (2013)
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This paper describes an event held as part of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Festival of Social Science and was funded by the ESRC and the University of the West of England (UWE). It took place on an afternoon in March 2013 in an inn... Read More about Myths, reality, and sexual violence: Changing attitudes, changing practice.

Do conversations about our appearance do us more harm than good? (2013)
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Research has shown that appearance conversations are commonly associated with increased body image concerns and anxiety about ageing. In this article, Research Health Psychologist and Senior Research Fellow Phillippa Diedrichs explores where these is... Read More about Do conversations about our appearance do us more harm than good?.

The experiences of patients with ascites secondary to cancer: A qualitative study (2013)
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Background: Ascites secondary to cancer has a dramatic effect on all aspects of patients' lives. Healthcare professional surveys have shown that there is considerable variation in the management of ascites. Aim: To explore patients' experiences of li... Read More about The experiences of patients with ascites secondary to cancer: A qualitative study.

Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray (2013)
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In chapter 8 of Dorian Gray, Dorian reflects on the terrifying discovery, which he has made the previous night, that the painting has been somehow altered to express his own moral state. He speculates thus on a possible explanation for the change in... Read More about Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray.

The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective (2013)
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The three current theories of the origin of the name of the American state of Maine are reviewed and rejected. The connection of the colonist Sir Ferdinando Gorges with Ireland is explored, and a possible origin is proposed in the circumstances of th... Read More about The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective.

Rethinking Romano-British corinium (2013)
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It is suggested that the name generally accepted as the Romano-British name of Cirencester, Corinium, the traditional spelling deriving from a Latin rendering of that in Ptolemy's Geography, is mistaken, and that for philologically sound reasons the... Read More about Rethinking Romano-British corinium.

Review of 'Unemployment, recession and effective demand: The contributions of Marx, Keynes and Kalecki', by Claudio Sardoni (2013)
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Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management (2013)
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The environmental and financial costs of inputs to, and unintended consequences arising from narrow consideration of outputs from, water and environmental management technologies highlight the need for low-input solutions that optimise outcomes acros... Read More about Systemic solutions for multi-benefit water and environmental management.

The association between pre-operative pain sensitisation and chronic pain after knee replacement: An exploratory study (2013)
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Objective: Chronic pain after total knee replacement (TKR) is a prevalent condition, affecting about 20% of patients. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between pre-operative pain thresholds and chronic pain after TKR. Design: Pati... Read More about The association between pre-operative pain sensitisation and chronic pain after knee replacement: An exploratory study.