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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British civil defence policy in response to the threat of nuclear attack 1972-1986 by Arnold, Jacquelyn

“…The thesis concludes that determining one dominant influence from within the intensely symbiotic relationship of ideology, economics and external affairs is problematic. Rather it can be seen that the initiation of civil defence policy was the aspect of the policy cycle most closely influenced by ideology. …”
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Accounting for the increasing securitization of LGBTI groups in sub-Saharan African states by Ridley, Martin Edwin

“…The narrative is positioned within inter-subjectively constructed meanings of identity; an African and religious identity which is seen as traditional and conservative, mainly either Christian or Islamic. …”
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The Equality Act 2010 and empty diversity : neoliberal legislation and inequality in the lives of trans* and sexgender nonconforming people by Hunter, Chryssy

“…In particular the Equality Act 2010 can be seen as entrenching inequality and discrimination, rather than promoting genuine social and economic equality, by only protecting more ‘legible’, ‘fungible’ and normative experiences of trans* expression.…”
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Increasing the frequency of physical activity very brief advice by nurses to cancer patients. A mixed methods feasibility study of a training intervention by Webb, Justin, Hall, J., Hall, K., Fabunmi-Alade, R.

“…A significant improvement was seen in delivery of very brief advice at 12 weeks (Z = −4.39, P ≤ 0.01). …”
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Posthumanist panic cinema? The films of Andrew Niccol by Baldwin, Jon

“…These familiar motifs of the posthuman condition, as well as media surveillance, virtual reality, cloning, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, biometrics, drones, and so on, feature in the popular films of Andrew Niccol.They can be seen to represent and express anxiety around the posthuman condition. …”
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Black Workers and BME networks organising against racism in the NHS workplace by Carter, Nigel Geoffrey

“…Based on case studies of two organisations – a local NHS BME Network and a local UNISON Black Self-Organised Group – the research explores the hypothesis that BME Diversity Networks may be seen as more effective ‘collective voices’ than trade union Black Self-Organised Groups for promoting race equality in the NHS workplace. …”
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Gender inequality and academic freedom in Pakistani higher education by Fakhr, Zainab, Messenger, Hazel

“…Gender inequality and how it negatively influences the opportunities available for females to progress is a universal issue; however, although initiatives designed to tackle this problem are being seen to result in gradual improvement internationally, particularly in industrial countries, the situation in developing countries remains a concern. …”
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How do second generation Muslim men experience mental health problems within the context of their faith: an IPA study by Chaudhrey, Sara

“…Three superordinate themes were found: "Perceived stigma from community" - which explores the views of therapy and mental health from within the communities, "Mental health issues as seen from an Islamic perspective" - which looks into the influence of God, the devil and Jinn and the alternatives to therapy, "Intergenerational conflict and masculinity within Islam" - which discusses the masculine identity of Muslim men and the difficulties between second generation and first generation Muslim men. …”
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Adaptation of business rules in business workflow systems by Ezekiel, Kanana

“…Workflows are commonly seen as the top priority for companies wanting to survive the current competitive markets. …”
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A qualitative analysis of how therapists experience the therapeutic relationship with adults who were adopted as infants by Vote, Birgit

“…Research suggests that adoptees are seen in therapeutic settings in a greater proportion than their prevalence in the general population (Kennedy Porch, 2007). …”
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The long-term impact of multisystemic therapy: an experiential study of the adolescent-young adult life transition by Conroy, Dom, Smith, Jonathan A., Butler, Stephen, Byford, Sarah, Cottrell, David, Kraam, Abdullah, Fonagy, Peter, Ellison, Rachel, Simes, Elizabeth, Anokhina, Alisa

“…Among males, significantly more mature outcomes were found among participants who had received MST compared with MAU. No differences were seen between the female groups. A detailed qualitative commentary shows how the constructs, mature and stuck, are manifest across the four domains. …”
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Practical poetics: rhythmic spatiality and the communicative movement between site, architecture and sculpture by Lynch, Patrick

“…Rhythm was traditionally seen as an aspect of measure - therefore invoking justice (cf. …”
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Towards a process-based understanding of resilience: an investigation into post-trauma resilience in Eritrean refugees by Rossi, Alexia

“…Resilience literature has recently seen an important shift in focus from the identification of individual characteristics that seem to contribute to positive adaptation to a focus on how these characteristics appear to work together cumulatively to result in such adaptation. …”
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Assessing the challenge of policing animal rights extremism in the UK and the changing impact on community safety and human rights in the period 2004-2010 by Mills, Gordon Roy

“…This thesis explores animal rights activism and associated extremism between the period 2004 - 2010 in the UK and proposes that this post 2004 period witnessed a new era in animal rights extremism comparable to the strategic change seen in 'new terrorism'. It argues that following the successful targeting of major pharmaceutical companies leading up to 2004, by animal rights campaigners deploying a variety of effective tactics based primarily on intimidation and harassment - the government, the police and the targeted industries, robustly responded in a coordinated strategic approach to reduce animal rights crimes. …”
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The English public library as an agency for social stability c. 1850-1919 by Black, Alistair Matthew

“…Via the medium of the public library humanistic culture was seen to possess material externalities; the intention being to advance industrial capitalism whilst ameliorating its dehumanizing effects. …”
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The biology of crayfish plague (Aphanomyces Astaci: Schikora) in Great Britain by Rodgers, Matthew

“…Although nervous tissue was infected, gross involvement of the nerve chord was not seen and nervous involvement was not believed to be the major cause of death. …”
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The possible in the life and work of Henri Bergson by Brown, Steven D., Lundy, Craig

“…Bergson’s work was of enormous influence to early-twentieth-century social science, and has seen a resurgence in the twenty-first century. This is in part due to the reception of Gilles Deleuze’s work, which engaged extensively with Bergson. …”
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