Extended Behavioural Device Modelling and Circuit Simulation with Qucs-S by Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim

“…Current trends in circuit simulation suggest a growing interest in open source software that allows access to more than one simulation engine while simultaneously supporting schematic drawing tools, behavioural Verilog-A and XSPICE component modelling, and output data post-processing. …”
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency data on the US dollar / British pound spot exchange rate by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…In particular, when the data are collected every 10 minutes there are several cases with values of d strictly smaller than 1, implying mean-reverting behaviour; however, for higher data frequencies the unit root null cannot be rejected. …”
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On the conceptualization and measurement of flow by Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…The chapter then analyzes the emerging process approach, which conceptualizes and measures flow as a dynamic path rather than an object, and highlights its potential for integrating flow and creativity within the same conceptual framework. …”
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The implied-realized volatility relation in foreign exchange options markets by Kellard, Neil, Dunis, Christian L., Sarantis, Nicholas

“…Significantly, for many popular exchange rates, the use of intra-day rather than daily data affects the emergence of a different bias, as the possibility of a fractionally integrated risk premium admits itself!…”
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Social Work in FSU countries: mapping the progress of' 'the professional project' by Iarskaia-Smirnova, Elena, Lyons, Karen

“…The authors conclude that the professional project faces many challenges across the FSU region and the progress made - or lack of it in some countries - can be related to the politics and economics of particular states, However, the evidence suggests that, less than a quarter of a century after the demise of communism, the project has been initiated in all but one FSU countries and there are indications of positive developments.…”
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"It’s your job, you can handle it" : a grounded theory study of ward staffs' views on the experiences, causes and consequences of verbal aggression in an acute psychiatric ward by Shetty, Prarthana

“…Conclusions: The themes observed in the study have conceptualised verbal aggression as more than a negative interaction on an individual level, highlighting the influence of organisational factors as having a significant bearing on staffs’ psychological wellbeing and staff-patient relational dynamics. …”
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Unrolling the text: using scrolls to facilitate academic reading by Abegglen, Sandra, Burns, Tom, Middlebrook, Dave, Sinfield, Sandra

“…We outline how we explored with staff the potential of the textscroll to offer a more welcoming, accessible, collaborative and dialogic encounter with reading than the codex (bound book or article). Drawing briefly on a literature review commissioned when part of the LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, we consider reading not just as a semantic or linguistic activity but as a socio-political one especially for those, like our students, who are typically placed as educational outsiders. …”
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The equilibrium real effective exchange rate of China : a NATREX approach by You, Kefei, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…However the misalignment rates are much lower than those reported by previous studies. We also find weak evidence of overvaluation for most of the pre-reform period. …”
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Respecting and ensuring rights: feminist ethics for a state response to fundamentalism by Dhaliwal, Sukhwant

“…This is positioned against a neo-liberal and nationalist state response and a reactive left/anti-racist response in order to make visible the connections between terror and torture and also the myopia of a response that emphasises an obligation to either respect or ensure rights rather than both simultaneously. This is particularly underlined within the final section where a discussion of gender perspectives on tackling fundamentalism distinguishes between the human right to security, an important concern for feminists involved in ending violence against women and girls, and the government’s protection of its own interests through securitisation. …”
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The use of smokeless tobacco among UK South Asian communities by Constance, Janice

“…More than 2 million people in the UK consumes chewing tobacco products, of which the majority are from South Asian communities. …”
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‘It’s a work in progress’: men’s accounts of gender and change in their use of coercive control by Downes, Julia, Kelly, Liz, Westmarland, Nicole

“…We argue that coercive control is more dynamic, contestable and open to change than previous research has suggested. Some men did manage to take steps away from investing in traditional masculine norms and reduce their use of coercive tactics. …”
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Microstrip bandpass filter with wide stopband and high out-of-band rejection by Farhat, Mohamad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Ghareeb, Nader H.

“…The filter has high out-of-band rejection (> 30 dB), less than 0.6 dB of insertion-loss, up to 5.5 GHz spurii free, and about 18 dB of return-loss. …”
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The wind of change by Ermolayeva, Nadezhda

“…Such views appear regularly in Russia and these publications would not be taken seriously by the Russian intellectual elite if the initiator of the discussions were someone other than Professor of Law and Chair of the Russian Constitutional Court (CC), Valeriy Zorkin. …”
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Support vector machine and its difficulties from control field of view by Yalsavar, Maryam, Karimaghaei, Paknoosh, Sheikh-Akbari, Akbar, Shukla, Pancham, Setoodeh, Peyman

“…Experimental results show that the proposed method generates superior or very competitive results in term of accuracy than those of classical and state-of-the-art SVM-based techniques while using a significantly smaller number of support vectors.…”
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Opening Pandora’s box: how does peer assessment affect EFL students’ writing quality? by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Findings indicated that learners who received PA and TA improved their essays more in terms of lexical complexity, accuracy, and some features of grammatical complexity and fluency than those who received only TA. The current study highlights the desirability of collaborative group work, in the form of PA activities, in the creation of opportunities conducive to promoting writing quality.…”
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Children's constructions of work by Hutchings, Merryn

“…A broadly social constructionist perspective has been adopted, drawing on a range of theorists who have focused on behaviour and interaction rather than structures in the mind or the world. Constructions of work and resources drawn on were investigated through interviews with forty-three children in two London primary schools, one in a predominantly middle class area and one in a working class area. …”
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the main drainage of London by Halliday, Stephen

“…Particular reference is made to the four cholera epidemics which, between 1832 and 1866, are recorded as having killed more than thirty-six thousand citizens. It examines the engineering problems presented by the need to undertake major engineering work in the most densely populated parts of the world's largest city and the novel solutions that were sometimes adopted to overcome them. …”
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Elements of design that affect aesthetic evaluation by Jansson, Cathrine

“…Depending on the textures used the overall aesthetic evaluation is sometimes more influenced by haptic properties than visual evaluation. Furthermore it was found that dwell time can be influenced by whether the display is perceived to be 'mysterious', 'complex' or'interesting, as well as the textures used on a product.…”
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Keeping it in three dimensions: measuring the development of mental rotation in children with the rotated colour cube test (RCCT) by Lütke, Nikolay, Lange-Kuettner, Christiane

“…Ten-year-olds performed significantly better than 7- to 8-year-olds. The RCCT significantly correlated with children’s performance on the Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices Test (RCPM) presumably due to the shared multiple-choice format, but the RCCT was easier, as it did not require sequencing. …”
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When the weak survives taking advantage of rivalry between stronger opponents? by Kersmo, Tadesse Biru

“…Often, conflicts are “games” played by more than two players with varying skills and strengths; and gains and losses are distributed unevenly. …”
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