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On the diet of Rhadinaea decorata (Gunther, 1858) (2007)
Journal Article
Lewis, T. R., & Grant, P. B. (2007). On the diet of Rhadinaea decorata (Gunther, 1858). Herpetozoa, 20(1/2), 91

Rhadinaea decorata (GÜNTHER, 1858) is a small diurnal leaf litter snake commonly encountered in a variety of tropical forests in Central America. In Costa Rica it is a broadly distributed and a regularly encountered species, however, little is still... Read More about On the diet of Rhadinaea decorata (Gunther, 1858).

Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs (2007)
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O'Regan, N., Sims, M. A., & Gallear, D. (2007). Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 19(1), 6-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410380810843426

Purpose This paper aims to assess the link between strategic-planning, aspects of the external environment and overall corporate performance in manufacturing SMEs. Design-methodology-approach A self-reported postal survey was used to collect data fro... Read More about Leaders, loungers, laggards: The strategic-planning-environment- performance relationship re-visited in manufacturing SMEs.

Measuring progress towards carbon reduction in the UK (2007)
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Druckman, A., Bradley, P., Papathanasopoulou, E., & Jackson, T. (2008). Measuring progress towards carbon reduction in the UK. Ecological Economics, 66(4), 594-604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.10.020

The UK Climate Change Bill proposes to establish legally binding targets for a 60% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. This paper discusses the challenges posed by measuring progress towards this target. It takes as a premise that the conv... Read More about Measuring progress towards carbon reduction in the UK.

The chemedian brings laughter to the chemistry classroom (2007)
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Weitkamp, E., & Burnet, F. (2007). The chemedian brings laughter to the chemistry classroom. International Journal of Science Education, 29(15), 1911-1929. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500690701222790

"The Chemedian and the Crazy Football Match" is a comic strip developed by the authors to bring humour to aspects of the UK primary science curriculum. The comic strip was tested in six English primary school classes (years 3-5; ages 7-10); over 150... Read More about The chemedian brings laughter to the chemistry classroom.

Body perception disturbance: A contribution to pain in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) (2007)
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Lewis, J. S., Kersten, P., McCabe, C. S., McPherson, K. M., & Blake, D. R. (2007). Body perception disturbance: A contribution to pain in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS). PAIN, 133(1), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2007.03.013

In spite of pain in the CRPS limb, clinical observations show patients pay little attention to, and fail to care for, their affected limb as if it were not part of their body. Literature describes this phenomenon in terms of neurological neglect-like... Read More about Body perception disturbance: A contribution to pain in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS).

A mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene associated with pyrethroid resistance in Latin American Aedes aegypti (2007)
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Black IV, W. C., Saavedra-Rodriguez, K., Urdaneta-Marquez, L., Rajatileka, S., Moulton, M., Flores, A. E., …Hemingway, J. (2007). A mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene associated with pyrethroid resistance in Latin American Aedes aegypti. Insect Molecular Biology, 16(6), 785-798. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2583.2007.00774.x

Pyrethroids are commonly used as mosquito adulticides and evolution of resistance to these compounds is a major threat to public health. 'Knockdown resistance' to pyrethroids (kdr) is frequently caused by nonsynonymous mutations in the voltage-gated... Read More about A mutation in the voltage-gated sodium channel gene associated with pyrethroid resistance in Latin American Aedes aegypti.

Blue sky thinking (2007)
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Parry, G. (2007). Blue sky thinking. Manufacturing Engineer -London-, 86(4), 40-43. https://doi.org/10.1049/me%3A20070411

Building cars to customer order could provide the key to releasing billions of euros currently tied up in stock. Glenn Parry outlines a scheme to move the industry in this direction.

Functional three-dimensional HepG2 aggregate cultures generated from an ultrasound trap: Comparison with HepG2 spheroids (2007)
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Edwards, G. O., Liu, J., Kuznetsova, L. A., Xu, J., Ma, M., Purcell, W. M., …Coakley, W. T. (2007). Functional three-dimensional HepG2 aggregate cultures generated from an ultrasound trap: Comparison with HepG2 spheroids. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 102(5), 1180-1189. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcb.21345

Three-dimensional culture systems are an ideal in vitro model being capable of sustaining cell functionalities in a manner that resembles the in vivo conditions. In the present study, we developed an ultrasound trap-based technique to rapidly produce... Read More about Functional three-dimensional HepG2 aggregate cultures generated from an ultrasound trap: Comparison with HepG2 spheroids.

Austrian economics and the analysis of labor markets (2007)
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Fleetwood, S. (2007). Austrian economics and the analysis of labor markets. Review of Austrian Economics, 20(4), 247-267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-006-0009-6

Theory and policy relating to labor markets is dominated by the mainstream labor market model, although a less well-known, socioeconomic version can also be identified. The mainstream model is methodologically flawed and forced, thereby, to relegate... Read More about Austrian economics and the analysis of labor markets.

Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting (2007)
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Mariscal, I. B. F., Biefang-Frisancho Mariscal, I., & Howells, P. (2007). Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting. International Review of Applied Economics, 21(5), 603-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/02692170701525966

There is a widespread belief that the transparency of UK monetary policy has increased substantially as a result of the introduction of inflation targeting in 1992 and a number of procedural and institutional reforms which accompanied and followed it... Read More about Monetary policy transparency in the UK: The impact of independence and inflation targeting.

Recurrence of daily travel patterns: Stochastic process approach to multiday travel behavior (2007)
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Susilo, Y. O., Bayarma, A., & Kitamura, R. (2007). Recurrence of daily travel patterns: Stochastic process approach to multiday travel behavior. Transportation Research Record, 2021(2021), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.3141/2021-07

Multiday travel behavior was examined as a stochastic process, and new empirical findings are offered on the variation of travel patterns from day to day. The analysis was based on data from a 6-week travel diary survey conducted in Germany. A small... Read More about Recurrence of daily travel patterns: Stochastic process approach to multiday travel behavior.

Using the XCS classifier system for multi-objective reinforcement learning problems (2007)
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Studley, M., & Bull, L. (2007). Using the XCS classifier system for multi-objective reinforcement learning problems. Artificial Life, 13(1), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl.2007.13.1.69

We investigate the performance of a learning classifier system in some simple multi-objective, multi-step maze problems, using both random and biased action-selection policies for exploration. Results show that the choice of action-selection policy c... Read More about Using the XCS classifier system for multi-objective reinforcement learning problems.

A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change (2007)
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Beeching, K. (2007). A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 8(1), 69-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.8.1.05bee

This paper posits that certain "qualificatory" semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the inter-subjective, non-truth-conditional, proc... Read More about A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change.

Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer (2007)
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Harcourt, D., Frith, H., & Fussell, A. (2007). Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 11(5), 385-391. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2007.03.002

Chemotherapy treatment for cancer can have a profound impact on appearance, and is often experienced as distressing. Few qualitative studies explore experiences of chemotherapy, and seldom focus on the process of anticipation and preparation for an a... Read More about Anticipating an altered appearance: Women undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.

Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis (2007)
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Mathers, A., & Novelli, M. (2007). Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis. Globalizations, 4(2), 229-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747730701345259

In this paper we investigate the process of carrying out ethnographic studies of organized resistance to neoliberal globalization. We do so by drawing upon the critical and public social science of Bourdieu and Santos, two highly influential opponent... Read More about Researching resistance to neoliberal globalization: Engaged ethnography as solidarity and praxis.

Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush (2007)
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Gordon, S. (2007). Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush. Feminist Media Studies, 7(2), 171-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770701286987

This article develops a feminist critical approach capable of responding to the uniquely pessimistic portrayal of female friendship in Crush (Alison Maclean 1992, NZ). Crush questions the possibility of supportive or empathetic relationships, disclos... Read More about Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush.

'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development (2007)
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Percy-Smith, B. (2007). 'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development. Health Education Research, 22(6), 879-894. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cym032

This paper draws on research in the United Kingdom which set out to explore young people's understandings and experiences of health as experienced in their everyday lives and according to their own terms of reference, rather than in response to polic... Read More about 'You think you know? ... You have no idea': Youth participation in health policy development.

A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
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Lister, M. (2007). A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information. Convergence, 13(3), 251-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856507079176

Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.

Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools (2007)
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Ritchie, R., & Woods, P. A. (2007). Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools. School Leadership and Management, 27(4), 363-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/13632430701563130

The research reported on in this article explores how degrees of leadership distribution in schools might be differentiated. Data were collected from ten schools - eight primary and two secondary schools - / which were identified as exhibiting 'good... Read More about Degrees of distribution: Towards an understanding of variations in the nature of distributed leadership in schools.

Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies (2007)
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Clark, R., & Mytton, J. (2007). Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies. Journal of Public Health, 29(4), 420-428. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdm063

Background The prevalence of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB), HIV and hepatitis B in the UK asylum seeker and refugee population is currently uncertain. Methods Systematic review of published and unpublished studies. Results Five studie... Read More about Estimating infectious disease in UK asylum seekers and refugees: A systematic review of prevalence studies.