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Hot off the presses - Sui Generis traditional knowledge bill published (2013)
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Producing space, the confrontation between abstract space and everyday life: I wunder if heaven got a ghetto (2013)
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This paper is intended as a contribution to current debates about the changing conditions of urban space and uneven development. It will analyse the functions of the architectural professions in this process and how their productions prefigure the so... Read More about Producing space, the confrontation between abstract space and everyday life: I wunder if heaven got a ghetto.

A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” (2013)
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Angela Carter’s short story collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is a reworking of traditional fairy tales, or as she suggested “stories about fairy stories.” Carter takes up the flexible structure of the fairy story in order to communicat... Read More about A scopophiliac fairy tale: Deconstructing normative gender in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”.

Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations (2013)
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Drawing on evidence from longitudinal case studies in 25 organizations, this article examines whether information and consultation (I&C) bodies established in the context of the UK's Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 2004 have bee... Read More about Promoting Effective Consultation? Assessing the Impact of the ICE Regulations.

Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review (2013)
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Youth justice is an important public health issue. There is growing recognition of the need to adopt effective, evidence-based strategies for working with young offenders. Music interventions may be particularly well suited to addressing risk factors... Read More about Music making for health, well-being and behaviour change in youth justice settings: A systematic review.

Imaging and clinical evidence of sensorimotor problems in CRPS: Utilizing novel treatment approaches (2013)
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Inflammation and altered autonomic function are diagnostic signs and symptoms of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. In the acute stages these are commonly at their most florid accompanied by severe pain and reduced function. Understandably this has dire... Read More about Imaging and clinical evidence of sensorimotor problems in CRPS: Utilizing novel treatment approaches.

Fear and institutions (2013)
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Fear allowed early humans to adapt, evolve, and survive. When humans moved into settled communities, with more advanced means of production, the nature of fear-much like the nature of social relationships-changed. Once the means of social reproductio... Read More about Fear and institutions.

Differing Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on the Central Asian Countries: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan (2013)
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Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan are neighbouring countries in post-Soviet Central Asia which share similar culture and language. Their economic structures were similar under central planning: they provided the agricultural basis to the... Read More about Differing Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on the Central Asian Countries: Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan.

Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors (2013)
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The overall aim of this paper is to identify critical success factors that would help Private Finance Initiative/facility management (PFI/FM) contractors to avoid performance failure payment deductions in Public Private Partnership/PFI (PPP/PFI) proj... Read More about Avoiding performance failure payment deductions in PFI/PPP projects: Model of critical success factors.

Discussion: The adverse health and safety influence of subcontracting (2013)
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Assessing future travel demand: A need to account for non-transport technologies? (2013)
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Purpose: Travel is usually not valued in and of itself, but for the activities it allows people to partake in. Therefore, if change occurs in either the activities people perform, or in the means they use to perform them, the demand for travel is lik... Read More about Assessing future travel demand: A need to account for non-transport technologies?.

Client employment of previous auditors: Shareholders views on auditor independence (2013)
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The role of auditors is to add credibility to financial information and to reduce the risk of management manipulation or concealment. It is vital that auditors be independent of company management. In practice, however, various circumstances may pose... Read More about Client employment of previous auditors: Shareholders views on auditor independence.

Triggers for changes in cycling: The role of life events and modifications to the external environment (2013)
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There is surprising little research that directly investigates the reasons why people change their cycling behaviour. This paper presents findings from in-depth interviews that sought to understand the circumstances and factors that influenced people... Read More about Triggers for changes in cycling: The role of life events and modifications to the external environment.

A quantitative approach for measuring process innovation: A case study in a manufacturing company (2013)
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Process management and innovation arguably remain among the concepts under focus of recent researches since there is no significantly outstanding method to measure and monitor the level of innovation in the manufacturing processes over a particular t... Read More about A quantitative approach for measuring process innovation: A case study in a manufacturing company.

Anonymous attestation with user-controlled linkability (2013)
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This paper is motivated by the observation that existing security models for direct anonymous attestation (DAA) have problems to the extent that insecure protocols may be deemed secure when analysed under these models. This is particularly disturbing... Read More about Anonymous attestation with user-controlled linkability.

Migration and niche partitioning simultaneously increase species richness and rarity (2013)
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To understand species abundance distributions effectively, it is essential to consider the forces which create the overwhelmingly long 'tail' of rare species. Both neutral and niche theory have been invoked to explain the rarity of certain species in... Read More about Migration and niche partitioning simultaneously increase species richness and rarity.

Happy being me in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children (2013)
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This study evaluated an adapted version of 'Happy Being Me', a school-based body image intervention, with girls and boys aged 10-11 years. Forty-three children participated in a three-week intervention, and 45 children formed a control group. Both gr... Read More about Happy being me in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children.

Intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus standard therapy for severe acute asthma (3Mg trial): A double-blind, randomised controlled trial (2013)
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Background: Previous studies suggested intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate (MgSO 4 ) might improve respiratory function in patients with acute asthma. We aimed to determine whether intravenous or nebulised MgSO 4 improve symptoms of breathles... Read More about Intravenous or nebulised magnesium sulphate versus standard therapy for severe acute asthma (3Mg trial): A double-blind, randomised controlled trial.

The importance of methane breath testing: A review (2013)
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Sugar malabsorption in the bowel can lead to bloating, cramps, diarrhea and other symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome as well as affecting absorption of other nutrients. The hydrogen breath test is now a well established noninvasive test for assessi... Read More about The importance of methane breath testing: A review.

What works in secondary schools? A systematic review of classroom-based body image programs (2013)
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Governments, schools, and curriculum authorities are increasingly recognizing that body image during adolescence is a public health issue that warrants attention in the school setting. After 30 years of eating disorder prevention research, and given... Read More about What works in secondary schools? A systematic review of classroom-based body image programs.