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Corporate governance and firm performance in Hong Kong (2018)
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Hong Kong has adopted updated corporate governance (CG) rules and code of best practices in year 2005. This study aims to review and analyze if CG practices of a firm in Hong Kong have any influence on its performance as a result of these updated ado... Read More about Corporate governance and firm performance in Hong Kong.

Illegality of contracts: A critical analysis of agreements in breach of articles 101 and 102 of the treaty on the functioning of the European Union (2018)
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This research paper is the result of an effort to critically evaluate the position of the European Union competition law on the legality of an agreement which contravenes Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty for the Functioning of the European Union (T... Read More about Illegality of contracts: A critical analysis of agreements in breach of articles 101 and 102 of the treaty on the functioning of the European Union.

The economic community of West African states and its members: A success story of integrated development (2018)
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The effects of regional economic integration on trade and development of the Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was chosen as topic for this article to examine how much impact regional integration has made among M... Read More about The economic community of West African states and its members: A success story of integrated development.

SoundMapp: Participatory design in museum space (2018)
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This article explores the possibility of creating alternative user experience in exhibition spaces while using audience interactivity as medium for generating sonic material. We are investigating participatory art in museum space, ways for redefining... Read More about SoundMapp: Participatory design in museum space.

Alcohol abuse and illicit drug use at construction sites: Perception of workers at construction sites (2018)
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This study aims at establishing the perception of workers at the construction sites regarding illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Specifically the study attempts to investigate the key causes of substance abuse, awareness among workers on the effects... Read More about Alcohol abuse and illicit drug use at construction sites: Perception of workers at construction sites.

Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts (2018)
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This paper is a comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts. It analyses the similarities and differences in the identities that emerge from the situatedness of the insured and the insurer in the contracts in or... Read More about Situated identities in the discourse of insurance: A comparative critical discourse analysis of Chinese and British insurance contracts.

Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test (2018)
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The R-curve for Mode I trans-laminar fracture energy in quasi-isotropic IM7/8552 carbon/epoxy laminates is here deduced numerically from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test. A High-fidelity Finite Element Method (Hi-FEM) using the explic... Read More about Deducing the R-curve for trans-laminar fracture from a virtual Over-height Compact Tension (OCT) test.

Neoliberal development and struggle against it: The importance of social class, mystification and feasibility (2018)
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In this article I introduce and develop neoliberalism through a discussion of Marxism and the way that classed mystification and feasibility are crucial concepts for understanding the maintenance of neoliberalism, and revolutionary possibilities. The... Read More about Neoliberal development and struggle against it: The importance of social class, mystification and feasibility.

Zero-Knowledge Proof of Decryption for FHE Ciphertexts (2018)
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The pedagogy of placements in criminology teaching: An interactive parallel model of criminological learning (2018)
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Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support (2018)
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With the growing congestion in the airspace, Air Traffic Management(ATM) requires advances in massive data processing, sophisticated avionics techniques, coordination with weather updates, and assessment of multiple types of uncertainty. The complex... Read More about Uncertainty in avionics analytics ontology for decision-making support.

Risk assessment and management of perpetrators of sexual abuse in New Zealand (2018)
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New Zealand has seen changes in sexual abuse policy and practice over the last 10 – 15 years that have been driven by social factors, political and policy decisions as well as risk management concerns. The changes to the prevention, assessment and ma... Read More about Risk assessment and management of perpetrators of sexual abuse in New Zealand.

Risk assessment and management of individuals convicted of a sexual offence in the UK (2018)
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The UK has seen changes in sexual abuse policy and practice over the last 10 – 15 years that have been driven by austerity, risk management, public protection and the socio-political climate; these changes have been problematic and challenging as wel... Read More about Risk assessment and management of individuals convicted of a sexual offence in the UK.

Visual and auditory contextual cues differentially influence alcohol-related inhibitory control (2018)
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Introduction: Representing a more immersive testing environment, the current study exposed individuals to both alcohol-related visual and auditory cues to assess their respective impact on alcohol-related inhibitory control. It examined further wheth... Read More about Visual and auditory contextual cues differentially influence alcohol-related inhibitory control.

Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought (2018)
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Daniela Tavasci and Luigi Ventimiglia, two scholars from the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London (uk), edited a volume that brings together the contributions of economics educators to the teaching of the
history of eco... Read More about Review of Tavasci & Ventimiglia (eds.) Teaching the History of Economic Thought.

Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology (2018)
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The question arising from this article regards the meaning of sacrifice within the frame of Jan Patočka’s philosophy. Is human sacrifice aimed at reinforcing an institution or state of things as in the case of the Unknown Soldier narrative, or is it... Read More about Sacrifice as a political problem: Jan Patočka and sacred sociology.

Meaningfulness in literary naming within the framework of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) (2018)
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This paper develops ideas originally floated in the Journal of Literary Onomastics 4 (2015) particularly concerning the genesis of “meaningful” or “cratylic” names for characters, so-called “sprechende/redende Namen”. I argue that literary naming fal... Read More about Meaningfulness in literary naming within the framework of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP).

Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks (2018)
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This article outlines current publishing practices in the field of academic filmmaking through a detailed discussion of the development of Screenworks, a peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in screen media. The imperative for academ... Read More about Publishing screen media practice research: Evolving processes of contextualisation, peer review and future proofing in Screenworks.

Military Culture: Masculine Norms, Perceived Personal Control, Autonomous Motivation, and Coping Differences Between Injured Male Military Personnel and Civilian Sportsmen (2018)
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© 2018, © 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Engagement in rehabilitation is critical to enhanced outcomes from musculoskeletal injuries (MIs) and has been found to be related to some psychosocial factors. This study tested whether military culture,... Read More about Military Culture: Masculine Norms, Perceived Personal Control, Autonomous Motivation, and Coping Differences Between Injured Male Military Personnel and Civilian Sportsmen.

Morpholino Oligonucleotide Cross-Linked Hydrogels as Portable Optical Oligonucleotide Biosensors (2018)
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© 2018 American Chemical Society. Morpholino Oligonucleotides (MOs), an uncharged DNA analogue, are functionalized with an acrylamide moiety and incorporated into polymer hydrogels as responsive cross-links for microRNA sequence detection. The MO cro... Read More about Morpholino Oligonucleotide Cross-Linked Hydrogels as Portable Optical Oligonucleotide Biosensors.