The wind of change by Ermolayeva, Nadezhda

“…Zorkin's publication in Rossiyskaya Gazeta appears to be a sudden explosion in the long-brewing conflict between Russia and Western democracies. …”
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Universal basic Income by McDonough, Brian, Bustillos Morales, Jessie

“…The idea of receiving ‘money for nothing’, with no strings attached, has for a long time appeared a crazy or radical proposal. But today, this policy is being put into practice. …”
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Men's experience of infidelity in hetrosexual commited relationships : an interpretative phonomenological analysis by Pieluzek, Aleksandra Anna

“…The study further revealed long-term consequences of infidelity for the injured partners and their future relationships. …”
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Crystal structure of the DNA decamer d(CGCAATTGCG) complexed with the minor groove binding drug netropsin by Nunn, Christine M., Garman, Elspeth, Neidle, Stephen

“…The netropsin molecule fits within a five base pair long minor groove site by bending of the flexible amidinium group at one end of the drug.…”

Children's constructions of work by Hutchings, Merryn

“…The thesis argues that differences in experience between children can account for the differences in their constructions of work, and in particular, draws attention to the extremely limited experience and constructions of work of children in the families of the long-term unemployed.…”
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the main drainage of London by Halliday, Stephen

“…It also considers the controversies faced by Bazalgette and the Metropolitan Board of Works during the course of the work, with particular reference to the long and still unresolved debate of how finally to dispose of human waste to the benefit, or at least not to the detriment, of the environment. …”
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The exquisite corporealities of Leibniz: performance as embodied practice of thought and documentary praxis by Spackman, Helen

“…Extending Ernst's and my long-standing engagement with issues of alterity, 'home' and 'belonging', our more widely collaborative activities as LEIBNIZ have developed to specifically address the polemics of grafting personal with communal and political identities and the often problematic relation of such, both to civil and human rights and the wider ecologies of which we are each formed! …”
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Income inequality and wealth concentration as a root cause of the subprime crisis by Goda, Thomas

“…The major contributions of this dissertation are however (i) to provide empirical evidence about the negative impact of investor demand on US long-term bond yields in the pre-crisis period, which gives support to the hypothesis that the increasing global demand for safe assets led to a 'search for yield' by investors; (ii) to present estimates about the specific contribution of high net worth individuals to this negative impact; and (iii) to show that after having helped to cause a yield problem in the major US debt markets, high net worth individuals (via hedge funds) continued to be a major source of the pressure on US banks to resolve this yield problem through the mass production of CDOs.…”
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Real-time cyber analytics data collection framework by Maosa, Herbert, Ouazzane, Karim, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor

“…We present a data collection framework that minimizes the need for long term storage. Events are buffered in memory, up to a configurable threshold, before being streamed in real time using live streaming technologies. …”
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When the weak survives taking advantage of rivalry between stronger opponents? by Kersmo, Tadesse Biru

“…The war between the State of Eritrea, the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, and the Tigray Liberation Front can be analysed using this game model. So long, as there is peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the chances of TPLF survival are extremely low.…”
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Ferocious Marys and dark Alessas: the portrayal of religious matriarchies in Silent Hill by Beddows, Amy

“…Unsurprisingly, such stereotypical depictions are in line with the patriarchal norms which have long persisted in wider, secular society, which deem women as inferior and subordinate to men (Schur 1984). …”
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A structural model for cost effective building maintenance through design for maintainability by Ganisen, Shubashini

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Triple-band planar dipole antenna for omnidirectional radiation by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Located under the horizontal rectangular patch are two λ/2 long meander-line stubs symmetrically interfaced to the feedline. …”
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From Macro to Micro-Level Constructions in Course Design and Development in Higher Education: the case of a ‘principled’ framework for a new Masters in Public Health by Musoro, Livingstone

“…This advantage in higher education comes from a long-standing feature of academic life – the ‘freedom’ and ability to design and develop courses. …”
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Erdogan, Burcu, Kuzin, Vladimir

“…As a first step, we use the Stock and Watson (1998) procedure to filter the data in order to extract the long-run component of the series; then, following Phillips and Sul (2007), we estimate the relative transition parameters. …”
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Interest and exchange rate risk and stock returns : a multivariate GARCH-M modelling approach by Beirne, John, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Spagnolo, Nicola

“…The econometric framework is a four-variate GARCH-in-mean model, which incorporates long-and short-term interest rates in turn. We find in most cases a positive effect of stock market returns on mean returns in each sector; by contrast, interest rates and exchange rates have a significant effect only in a few cases, respectively negative and without a clear sign pattern. …”
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A hybrid Verilog-A and equation-defined subcircuit approach to MOS switched current analog cell modeling and simulation in the transient and large signal ac domains by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…However, with the growing complexity of this type of circuit, transient domain simulation times can become prohibitively long, restricting the size of circuit that can be easily investigated. …”
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Promoting good public governance and environmental support for sustainable economic development by Noja, Gratiela Georgiana, Cristea, Mirela, Sirghi, Nicoleta, Hategan, Camelia-Daniela, D’Anselmi, Paolo

“…Overall, the quality of governance in EU countries requires an additional effort dedicated to leverage good public governance in order to support the long-term economic development.…”
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Land remediation, event spaces and the pursuit of Olympic legacy by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…In particular, it considers ways in which redevelopment of the sizeable spaces prepared for staging the event take their place in broader strategies intended to bring long-term benefits to the host city and society in order to compensate for the costs and inconvenience originally incurred in hosting the Games. …”
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Vestibular receptors contribute to the cortical auditory evoked potentials by Todd, Neil P. M., Paillard, Aurore, Kluk, Karolina, Whittle, Elizabeth, Colebatch, James G.

“…In healthy subjects both auditory mid- and long-latency auditory evoked potentials (AEPs), consisting of Na, Pa, N1 and P2 waves, were observed in the sub-threshold conditions. …”
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