The GCSE attainment gap: assessing the influence of permanent school exclusion by Hills, Stephen, Walker, Matthew, Guinn, James, Kent, Aubrey

“…Using capped GCSE points as the academic attainment variable, we find that permanently excluded pupil scores were nearly 25 points lower than their non-permanently excluded peers. …”
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The ethical eye : photojournalists' views of ethics and digital photography in UK national newspapers by Kliewer, Paula D.

“…The research findings for this research were highlighted in Chapter Four. …”
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Compact Quad-Band Bandpass Filter Based on Stub-Loaded Resonators by Virdee, Bal Singh, Farhat, Mohamad, Riaz, Muhammad

“…The proposed technique provides sufficient degree of freedom to control the center frequency and bandwidth of the four passbands. In addition, the five transmission zeros created around the passbands results in a quad-band filter with high selectivity, sharp 3 dB cut-off frequency, high isolation, and low passband insertion-loss. …”
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Introducing computer-assisted assessment : considerations for the new practitioner by Lingard, Matt

“…These issues have been explored under five main headings: assessment purpose, time, pedagogic, operational and technological and students. …”
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The immigrants by Kollectiv, Galia, Kollectiv, Pil

“…The Immigrants is a solo exhibition by Pil and Galia Kollectiv (07.12.17 – 04.02.18) at the Naughton Gallery, Queen's University, Belfast. It features five films and a sculptural installation. In the first four films, through a series of small actions undertaken by costumed performers in different locations across the UK, an installation of filmed vignettes posits the futility of the border as a means of demarcating boundaries of identity, power and resources in an age of global capital flows, migrant labour forces, and environmental destruction that does not stop at abstract lines on a map. …”
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The neoliberal convergence of European industrial relations: economic inevitability or result of European political choices? by Jefferys, Steve

“…The central argument of Lucio Baccaro and Chris Howell’s analysis of European industrial relations over the past four decades (with a statistical analysis of fifteen countries and detailed chapters on five) is that ‘employer discretion’ has increased everywhere, although this is evidenced more in some countries than in others. …”

The working class in Schrader’s Blue Collar (1978) by Wheeler, Mark

“…Within this rust-belt drama, two of the men are black --- the thirty year-old Ezekiel ‘Zeke’ Brown (Richard Pryor) and the two-time ‘loser’ ex-convict thirty-five-year-old Sam ‘Smokey’ James (Yaphet Kotto) --- and one is white --- the thirty two year old Polish American Jerry Bartowski (Harvey Keitel). …”
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Development and validation of the short use of creative cognition scale in studying by Rogaten, Jekaterina, Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the 21-item CPAC scale is unidimensional. Five items were selected to create the new unidimensional UCCS. …”
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Balancing gender awareness and professional priorities in advertising and audiovisual translation: an overview by Corrius, Montse, De Marco, Marcella, Espasa, Eva

“…This paper reviews the main findings and challenges of the five phases of our study, which included: (1) exploring advertising and audiovisual translation students’ attitudes towards gender issues in commercial advertising across different educational settings; (2) examining the connections between feminist pedagogies and our courses on advertising translation; (3) evaluating the students’ and the trainers’ gender awareness; (4) exploring students’ gender awareness when they are faced with non-profit advertising, and (5) analysing the varied situated knowledge and perceived responsibility of students, trainers and professionals as regards gender and professional priorities.…”
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The effects of outsourcing on the psychological contract of survivor employees : the case of UK real estate sector by Akomolafe, Olufisayo O.

“…Thirty (30) interviews from five departments (Property management, IT and Administration, Brokerage, Marketing and Valuation) of two estate management organisations were conducted. …”
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Meeting the challenges of chemical and biological weapons: strengthening the chemical and biological disarmament and non-proliferation regimes by Edwards, Brett, Novossiolova, Tatyana, Crowley, Michael, Whitby, Simon, Dando, Malcolm, Shang, Lijun

“…The key findings and policy recommendations are outlined.…”
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Fast modelling of tidal phenomenon for the Straits of Malacca using laplace spatial interpolation technique by Kanchana Gunathilaka, Malavige Don Eranda

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Households energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of Mahabad City, Iran by Soltani, Mohammad

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A note comparing support vector machines and ordered choice models' predictions of international banks' ratings by Bellotti, Tony, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We find that Support Vector Machines virtually always predict international bank ratings better than ordered choice models. …”
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A Real Options Approach to growth opportunities and resilience aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic by Zhi, Wang, Upadhyay, Arvind, Kumar, Anil

“…The modelling and simulations using ROA suggest how strategic portfolios resolve the growing problem during the endemic to all but in the most isolated societies. Findings: We find the emergent correlation between circuit breakers and lockdowns, which have brought about a ‘distorted gravity’ effect (inverse growth of global businesses and trades). …”
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An ontological framework for assisting people with disabilities in organisations by Ulman, Michael

“…The Organisation Agent is able to identify when an action becomes an intention and whether the action is impaired so needing assistance, and if it does need assistance to find the assisting actions from those available, then select the optimal assister and its agent and direct it to the assisted agent. …”
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A temperature-dependent virus-binding assay reveals the presence of neutralising antibodies in human cytomegalovirus gB vaccine recipients’ sera by Gomes, Ariane, Baraniak, Ilona, McIntosh, Megan, Sodi, Isabella, Langstone, Tony, Siddiqui, Saima, Atkinson, Claire, McLean, Gary R., Griffiths, Paul D., Reeves, Matthew B.

“…We go on to show that this is not a general feature of gB neutralizing antibodies suggesting specific antibody responses induced by vaccination could be important. Although we can find no evidence that these neutralizing antibody responses are a correlate of protection in vivo in transplant recipients their identification demonstrate the utility of the approach in identifying these responses. …”
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Marta Czok ARCHĪVUM by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig, Czok, Marta

“…Each work is a standing document, but also part of a compendium of memories made, in this case, of images and narratives that intertwine with one another, as if they were branches of a tree – itself a symbol that we frequently find in Marta Czok's works. For Palazzo Mathis in Bra, this concept became the stimulus for a retrospective exhibition that looked at the artist's overall work, highlighting particular moments through a selection of four themes: AURUM (gold representations), CIVITAS (scenes of social life), VENUS (female representations), URBS (cityscapes). …”
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Development and validation of triz-based module for enhancing problem solving skills in tvet final year project by Wan Abu Seman, Sh Zainaf

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How do individuals make sense of positive voice hearing experiences?: an interpretative phenomenological analysis by North, Holly

“…The study addressed the lack of research exploring the subjective experience of voice hearing from the voice hearer’s perspective, particularly of positive voice hearing experiences. Five participants, all of whom had positive voice hearing experiences were recruited from hearing voices groups across England. …”
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