Exposing the London piano industry workforce (c. 1765-1914) by Kent, Marie E.

“…Findings are both general and specific in that they relate to the workforce as a whole and to specific individuals. More than seven thousand men, women and children are identified as makers, dealers, tuners and suppliers to the trade; it is demonstrated that women held a sustained role in the industry prior to the labour shortage of the First World War; that bankruptcy and insolvency were not endemic in the trade; that the perception of the industry as one shackled to tradition is appreciably flawed; and that further research is required to understand the complex interconnections that existed in the trade. …”
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Revisiting migrant networks: migrants and their descendants in labour markets

“…In so doing, this book offers critical interrogations of the role of co-ethnic networks and examines the extent to which migrants may rely upon dynamic strong and weak ties. Rather than adopting a narrow or essentialising ethnic lens, the research presented in this book explores intersectional identities of class, generation and gender. …”
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880 by Livingstone, Janet Elizabeth

“…An assessment of the hitherto neglected area of outdoor pauper children, who annually numbered 200,000-300,000 reveals more educational provision than previously described by the Webbs. Finally, the gradual and partial merging of pauper schooling into elementary education after 1870, and other changes in educational provision, are examined.…”
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Generic innovation and social change : the American thriller in the 1970s by Cobley, Paul

“…It will be argued that generic texts - and innovations across generic texts - are characterized by readings rather than by internal textual characteristics. It will also be argued that the predominance of text-based definitions of genre has had a long-term effect on the constitution of generic corpuses. …”
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Shallow sea tidal friction and sediment transport by Venn, J. F.

“…The South Falls cross-section shape may be a result of wave blocking rather than a westward sediment transport. Secondary flow acts to give a frictional bottom flow everywhere within the Southern Bight. …”
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Poststructuralism, postmodernism and British academic attitudes: with special reference to David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Gabriel Josipovici by Bostock, Paddy

“…Chapter Three focuses on Malcolm Bradbury's critical work, highlighting its concern with matters of a sociological rather than linguistic nature and indicating the shifts in his thought from a defence of liberalism in the face of determinism to increasing interest in American postmodernism. …”
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A comparative legal analysis of the implementation of the 1996 parental leave directive in the UK and Poland (1983-2010) by Boroch, Krzysztof

“…The thesis considers whether the change in the legislative process in favour of the involvement of Social Partners, has resulted in the adoption of the Directive on parental leave containing more stringent provisions than those envisaged in the Commission proposals for a Directive on parental leave blocked by the Council in the 1980s. …”
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Studies on the residue chemistry of some organophosphorus pesticides by Soares, Vera Maria

“…In general the FAB spectra gave parent ions stronger than from the electron impact technique. The FAB technique, which has not previously been applied to these types of compounds, also presented additional modes pf fragmentation which are discussed. …”
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Monarchy in the democratic age: the head of state debate in Britain: a constitutional and comparative analysis by Cross, Bernard W.

“…An important sector of republican sentiment is motivated less by distaste for the hereditary principle than by a positive aspiration for transparent, pluralist governance which, it considers, is not compatible with Britain's existing monarchical constitution. …”
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Late-quaternary environmental change at Eastbourne, East Sussex by Jennings, Simon C.

“…It is argued that the coastal sediments at Eastbourne are probably the result of the growth and over-running of depositional features superimposed upon the main Flandrian rise in sea-level, rather than reflecting eustatic oscillations. The pattern of sedimentation and the vegetation successions are placed within a regional context, and then combined to produce a model of landscape evolution for the late-Quaternary at Eastbourne.…”
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The importance of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids for fetal immune system maturation and function by Moodley, Therishnee

“…In addition term neonates had significantly higher numbers of CD4 and CD8 leukocytes than preterm and DNI neonates, including naïve and memory lymphocytes. …”
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The relationship between the domestic implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights and the ongoing reforms of the European Court of Human Rights by Paraskeva, Costas

“…The Recommendations require member states to act preventatively to ensure that the right systems are in place rather than seeking to take action after violations have occurred.…”
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Nanoparticle-coated Vivaldi antenna array for gain enhancement by Faeghi, Pouya, Ghobadi, Changiz, Nourinia, Javad, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…Furthermore, it is shown for the first time that by depositing a thin film of Graphene/copper nanoparticles onto the CSRR, the array’s gain is increased to 10 dBi at 180 degrees with sidelobe reduction of better than 15 dB.…”
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Wild ways: a scoping review to understand urban-rewilding behaviour in relation to adaptations to private gardens by Moxon, Sian, Webb, Justin, Semertzi, Alexandros, Samangooei, Mina

“…They indicate that facilitators are more significant than barriers and highlight an important body of work that has implications for practice and policy aimed at influencing urban rewilding.…”
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Young Europeans’ constructions and discussions of migrancy and racism by Loughran, Tom, Ross, Alistair, Spinthourakis, Julia Athena

“…We are particularly focused on how these young people articulated their discussions about migrancy and racism, and how they utilised contextual resources to develop and elaborate their arguments, rather than what particular view they came to. We focus on the necessity of supporting young people in discussing their values and experiences in a deliberative context, following their specific contingent concerns, and using the vocabulary and terms they use. …”
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A hierarchical security event correlation model for real-time threat detection and response by Maosa, Herbert, Ouazzane, Karim, Ghanem, Mohamed Chahine

“…Further, we propose a correlation process for events rather than alerts as is the case in current art. We further develop our own correlation and clustering algorithm which is tailor-made to the correlation and clustering of network event data. …”
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Placemaking, performance and infrastructures of belonging: the role of ritual healing and mass cultural gatherings in the wake of trauma by Kim, Anna Marazuela, Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…In the spirit of this project to develop a dynamic community of praxis, the authors have decided to frame their contribution to this volume as a dialogue rather than a univocal essay, keeping the commitment to posing theory against practice, and bringing a new voice, that of an artistic researcher- practitioner, into the discussion. …”
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Neuroblastoma and its targets therapies: a medicinal chemistry review by Gerges, Amgad, Canning, Una

“…It concludes by proposing that future medicinal chemistry research into NB should consider other possible target therapies and adopt a multi‐target drug approach rather than a one‐drug‐one‐target approach for improved efficacy and less drug‐drug interaction for the treatment of NB Stage 4 (NBS4) patients.…”
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Impasse-driven problem solving: the multidimensional nature of feeling stuck by Ross, Wendy, Arfini, Selene

“…We demonstrate that the feeling of insight can be reliably elicited by experiencing and resolving impasse but also in the absence of impasse, which suggests that there is more than one path to an insight experience. This adds depths to current proposals of the cognitive mechanisms underlying both insight problem-solving and impasse. …”
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Race and ethics in the translation classroom: reflections on teaching the Amanda Gorman’s translators controversies as a white British lecturer by Freeth, Peter J.

“…The first is the question of what we are seeking to teach when including the controversies in our curricula, arguing that a focus on discourses of who can/should translate who reframes the controversy through a white racial lens that fails to address the racial injustice and white privilege at the core of the initial controversy. The chapter than concludes with self-reflective discussions on how to present the controversies to students, the types of classes in which we teach ethics, and how to handle the Dutch-language primary sources in a British higher education context. …”
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