Identifying antecedents of marketing orientation of microfinance institutions in Ghana : the case study of microfinance companies by Dzogbenuku, Robert Kwame

“…Poverty has been acknowledged globally as a challenge afflicting billions of people. Microfinance is seen as a means of alleviating extreme poverty through supporting low income customers, micro enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using microfinance products to ameliorate risks associated with the poor. …”
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Developing empathic resonance in interprofessional education and practice by Whitehead, Graham

“…The World Health Organisation (2010) offered a Framework for action in inter-professional education (IPE) and inter-professional practice (IPP) which promoted ongoing collaborative practice as a key strategy to enhance patient outcomes in order to develop a practice-ready health workforce. This initiative has seen significant developments in practitioner training since this call for action. …”
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The end of tolerance: new discourses of racism, migration and the state in Britain, 1997-2008 by Kundnani, Arun

“…Alongside this redefinition of integration was a shift in the central axis of 'race relations' from white-black to western-Muslim, and from a view of minority cultural identity as a stabilising force to one in which it was seen as threatening and needing clear limits placed on it. …”
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Management of logistics service providers: a situational approach by Jacobsen, Sven-Erik

“…Over the past decade, companies have seen a dramatic increase in the number of options available to them for structuring their supply chain. …”
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Human Rights, Celebrity and Democracy by Wheeler, Mark

“…Finally, it will ask whether this polarised academic debate – in which celebrities have been to seen to either aid or undermine the realisation of human rights – should be reconfigured. …”
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A malicious URL detection framework using priority coefficient and feature evaluation by Rafsanjani, Ahmad Sahban

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Exploring the co-benefits of urban green infrastructure improvements for businesses and workers wellbeing by Cinderby, Steve, Bagwell, Sue

“…Providing accessible green space in office settings led to improvements in morale, team interaction and workplace satisfaction among staff members able to access the improvements. Increased GI was seen as improving uptake of company environmental policies such as energy saving or recycling among staff by their managers. …”
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The value and meaning of temporality and Its relationship to identity in Kunming City, China by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas

“…Importantly, this feature of the urban topography of Kunming can be seen as closely related to the surrounding mountains and lakes, both within and outside the old city boundaries that have served as primary reference points for Kunming’s urban planning. …”
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Co-production: fostering greater inclusion or reproducing existing exclusion? An analysis of co-commissioning and resident participation on a South London housing estate by Alexander, James

“…In many neoliberal economies, co-production is an increasingly popular way of generating public value, empowering citizens, and innovating public service delivery, and cuts to public sector budgets have seen it becoming more important as cash strapped public bodies strip back their services. …”
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Suspect communities?": counter-terrorism policy, the press, and the impact on Irish and Muslim communities in Britain by Hickman, Mary J., Thomas, Lyn, Silvestri, Sara, Nickels, Henri

“…The team also pointed to an element of hope in terms of how Irish communities, once termed as ‘suspect’, have now been accepted as ‘good citizens’ and this was seen to be a reassuring factor to Muslim participants in the discussion groups. …”
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Seeing sadness: comorbid effects of loneliness and depression on emotional face processing by Cheeta, Survjit, Beevers, Joseph, Chambers, Sophie, Szameitat, Andre, Chandler, Chris

“…Comorbid loneliness and depression resulted in an increased misattribution of neutral faces as sad, an effect that was also seen in those who were either only lonely or only depressed. …”
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Loss of NnT increases expression of oxidative phosphorylation complexes in C57BL/6J hearts by Williams, Jack L., Hall, Charlotte L., Meimaridou, Eirini, Metherell, Louise A.

“…However, differential gene expression was mainly driven by mouse background with some changes seen in all three tissues, perhaps reflecting underlying genetic differences between the C57BL/B6J and -6N substrains.…”
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Transformational texts: genre, discourse and subjectivity in the self-help book by Collingsworth, Jean

“…The research concludes that the selfhelp book is a paradoxical phenomenon for the cultural theorist because it asserts the survival of personal agency in the postmodern episteme which has seen the discrediting of grand narratives and the decentring of the human subject. …”
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Exercise induced pain and damage in human skeletal muscle by Newham, Dianne Jane

“…Small localised areas of morphological damage were seen immediately after exercise, and were more extensive 2-3 days later. …”
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Modeling a periodic electric vehicle-routing problem considering delivery due date and mixed charging rates using metaheuristic method by Elahi, Maryam, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…Indeed, with the SA algorithm, the processing time was seen to increase gradually with increasing the problem complexity, while the rate of increase in processing time was much steeper with the GAMS.…”
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How to learn places without spatial concepts: does the what-and-where reaction time system in children regulate learning during stimulus repetition? by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Küttner, Enno

“…We investigated the role of repetition for place learning in children although the acquisition of organizing spatial concepts is often seen as more essential. In a reaction-time accuracy task, 7- and 9-year-old children were presented with a randomized sequence of objects-in-places. …”

Therapeutic relationships with individuals with learning disabilities: a qualitative study of counselling psychologists' experience by Jones, Rachel Ann

“…In the non-leaming disabled population, the therapeutic relationship, between client and therapist, is seen as a fundamental aspect in the outcome of therapy. …”
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Weighted urban sustainability indicators using fuzzy linguistic scale in Kuching and Kota Kinabalu by Michael Mulok, Florianna Lendai, author, Zainon Noor, Zainura, thesis advisor

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Incremental cities : discovering the sweet spot for making town-within-a-city by King, Julia

“…The process of shared incrementalism is seen through the lens of Amartya Sen’s concept of ‘freedom’ in the context of global capitalism, which places stress on what he terms ‘capacity-building’. …”
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Digital and social media: the panacea of transformative engagement with young people; rhetoric or reality? Qualitative based research exploring police led digital and social media... by Stapleford, Richard J.

“…Digital and Social Media is seen as offering immense potential to deliver enhanced participation at a fraction of the cost of traditional engagement, but there is a distinct lack of empirical research associated with the police use of digital and social media to engage young people. …”
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