British travellers in Switzerland 1814-1860 by Heafford, Michael Richard

“…Firstly, little has been written about the British on the Continent between the end of the eighteenth century, when the Grand Tour may be considered to have ended, and the period when railways were sufficiently established to create new styles of travel, for instance in the development of 'package tours'. …”
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Entertainment noise control in Algeria by Belayat, Nadia Bousseksou

“…The measurements show a considerable increase in the noise level when the 'weddings' are on. This would not prove acceptable in the UK. …”
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Mixed tree nuts, cognition and gut microbiota: a 4-week, placebo-controlled, randomized crossover trial in healthy non-elderly adults by Haskell-Ramsay, Crystal, Dodd, Fiona L., Smith, Darren, Cuthbertson, Lewis, Nelson, Andrew, Lodge, John K., Jackson, Philippa A.

“…No significant changes to bacterial community alpha or beta diversity were observed when comparing nut consumption to the placebo arm. …”
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The effects of herbal extracts and compounds on the glucose metabolism in Hep G2 cells by Kandunuri, Kiran Kumar

“…And demonstrated significant glucose uptake (p<0.05, p<0.01), and consumption activity (p<0.05, p<0.001), when compared to the biguanides class of oral anti-hyperglycaemic agent metformin (p<0.01). …”
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Embodied reflective practice : the embodied nature of reflection-in-action by Gray, Andrew Lee

“…Knowing-in-action (Schön, 1983) describes the tacit knowing implicit in skillful performance when practice is going well, reflection-inaction (Schön, 1983) takes over, and describes the processes cycled through, only when problems are encountered in practice. …”
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Where Russians go for news by Sloane, Wendy

“…And a considerable percentage of the Russian population is now doing what many of us do when confronted with the brutal reality of a situation: they are burying their heads in the sand. …”
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Drawing as a Way of Knowing: Visual Practices as the Route to Becoming Academic by Abegglen, Sandra, Burns, Tom, Sinfield, Sandra

“…This case study illustrates what happened when we took a playful approach in a first year undergraduate academic skills module and a graduate Facilitating Student Learning module asking our students to “draw to learn.” …”
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Unlocking potential : harnessing the pedagogical benefits of e-learning by Cook, John

“…This paper outlines the emerging literature that appears to confirm that when e-learning in used in a pedagogically effective way it can have a positive impact across a range of indicators like retention and attainment, and explores the history of innovation in learning and teaching at London Metropolitan University, and the current opportunities offered by e-learning.…”
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Book review : Everyday Law in Russia by Kathryn Hendley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. 285 pp. ISBN: 9781501705243 by Stephenson, Svetlana

“…She is interested in how Russians engage with the legal system and whether the disdain, so often expressed for the courts, is matched by the reality of the people's behaviour when defending their legal rights.…”

Student performance and the electronic portfolio in WEBLEARN : an analysis of students use of online reflective diaries by Lunt, Tom

“…In particular, it aims to analyse the quality of student reflective entries in those online diaries when compared with the quality of reflective entries made by students using other ('offline') diary forms. …”
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The “T” Process: triangulating personal learning by Griffiths, Dave

“…The specific technique, it is suggested, may be usefully employed in a wide variety of contexts where individuals are required – formally or informally – to articulate experiential learning in oral or written form and when employed in an assessment context, for example as a precursor to RPL (“Recognition of Prior Learning) applications, the technique becomes assessment ‘as learning’ (Earl, 2003)…”
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Geometric method for global stability and repulsion in Kolmogorov systems by Hou, Zhanyuan

“…A class of autonomous Kolmogorov systems that are dissipative and competitive with the origin as a repellor are considered when each nullcline surface is either concave or convex. …”
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Remedies for human rights violations in Chechnya : the approach of the European Court in context by Koroteev, Kirill

“…This article discusses human rights violations in Chechnya. When the armed conflict in Chechnya - officially called a 'counter-terrorist operation' - commenced in 1999, extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate bombardment, torture and disappearances were committed by Russian forces on a large scale. …”
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Wind-up radio, 1992, UK/South Africa by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…The inventor Trevor Baylis, who conceived it in 1991, had already developed a series of products for disabled people called Orange Aids (1985) when he began work on a human-powered radio. The story of the development of the device is one of fruitful interplay between seemingly antithetical categories such as low-tech and high-tech, developed and developing world, and philanthropy and venture capitalism.…”
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The writing social: identifying with academic writing practices amongst undergraduate students by Davenport, Emma

“…Students are perceived as having a learning deficit when it comes to academic writing. It is assumed that they cannot write, rather than understanding that it is because they are struggling to learn how to write (Murray, 2015; Mitchell and Evison, 2006) within multiple learning contexts: module assessment, course discipline, level of study, academic success. …”
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On cohomologies and representations of groups with normal Engel subgroups by Kissin, Edward, Shulman, Victor

“…The paper studies triviality conditions for the cohomology group H1(G; lambda;U) when lambda and U are sectionally spectrally disjoint and examines some decompositions of the extension e(lambda; U; ksi) of lambda by U associated with non-trivial (lambda; U)-cocycles ksi.…”
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European sovereignty between autonomy and dependence: a guide for EU policy by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…This brief argues that European sovereignty (and related concepts such as strategic autonomy) is still an important and necessary guide for EU policy, but only if it is dissociated from some of the excessive and overambitious definitions given to the concept when it was first developed.…”
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Field Notes - Make good: rethinking material futures by Fereday, George

“…Field Notes considered the importance of diverse thinking when envisioning sustainable futures, it also discussed issues of land use and ownership; and questions of access and inclusion. …”

Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. …”
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Insight with stumpers: normative solution data for 25 stumpers and a fresh perspective on the accuracy effect by Ross, Wendy, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric

“…When people solve a problem, they can do in one of two ways - analytically or through insight. …”
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