Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Euro area by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Onorante, Luca, Paesani, Paolo

“…This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates the linkages between them in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main findings are as follows. Steady-state inflation and inflation uncertainty have declined steadily since the inception of EMU, whilst short-run uncertainty has increased, mainly owing to exogenous shocks. …”
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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…This paper proposes new metrics for the process of price discovery on the main electronic trading platform for euro-denominated government securities. …”
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Bridging the gap between gender (studies) and (audiovisual) translation by De Marco, Marcella

“…For this purpose, I will give an overview of the theoretical background on which this new approach is based and summarise the main aspects that the analysis of gender issues in AVT encompasses.…”
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An innovative custom cyber security solution for protecting enterprises and corporates’ assets by Ouazzane, Karim, Aigbodi, Markson, Mitchell, Daniel, Vassilev, Vassil, Li, Jun

“…Anti-virus software has been the main defense against malicious application and will remain so in the future. …”
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Tales of the Olympic city: memory, narrative and the built environment by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…After a contextual introduction, it employs a case study of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP), the main event space for the London 2012 Summer Games, to supply insight into how to read the urban traces of Olympic memory. …”
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Blind drawing: investigation into screen location tracking for computer aided interactive drawing by Fernando, Sandra

“…One of the main problems faced by blind learners is lack of drawing technologies that support images and diagram drawing without the help of a sighted support worker. …”
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What’s in store for Georgia at the European Court? An analysis of recently communicated cases by Koroteev, Kirill

“…An analysis of recently communicated cases against Georgia allows us to highlight the main areas of concern for the country, which which ought to be addressed even before judgments at the ECtHR are passed down.…”
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The role of discourse in family policy reform - the case of Finland by Nyby, Josefine, Nygard, Mikael, Autto, Janne, Kuisma, Mikko, Blum, Sonja

“…Not only did it draw on ideas from an austerity discourse advocating financial sustainability, fiscal prudency and debt reduction, it was also impregnated by ideas from a neoliberal worldview questioning some of the main principles of the ‘Nordic’ family policy model.…”
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Principal component regression in GAMLSS applied to Greek-German government bond yield spreads by Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios, Rigby, Robert A., Georgikopoulos, Nikolaos, De Bastiani, Fernanda

“…Fitting a model, using principal components regression of both main and first order interaction terms, for all the parameters of the assumed distribution of the response variable seems to produce promising results.…”
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Let's just see what happens: a qualitative case study of risk and uncertainty in the creative process by Ross, Wendy, Groves, Mike

“…This paper uses focused cognitive ethnography to explore how creativity is manifest in a complex environment. We report four main findings: that creativity involves a form of “knowing through doing”, that creativity requires risk on different levels, that an embodied material sensitivity is required to make ideas appear in the world and that the form of the creative product is often unstable. …”
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Initiation, marketing and branding of smart city projects: a study of decision processes by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Interviewees were asked to relate stories of how decisions had been reached, which stakeholders had been prioritised, the extent of citizen co-creation in project initiation and branding, and the main difficulties involved. An argumentative narrative discourse methodology was employed to analyse the interview transcripts, which revealed a number of disparities between the suggestions of extant place branding literature and current practice where smart city projects were concerned.…”
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Perceptions of parental substance misuse among social workers working with children and families by Grant, Alastair, Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne

“…This research used a qualitative design of semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis to explore five Social Workers viewpoints on working with parental substance use. Four main narratives emerged and these included: Challenges of working with parental substance use, informed decision making, developing self-efficacy and professional values. …”
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Take care: art and medicine by Bradley, Rachal

“…A large spectrum of media, from drawing, painting and sculpture to video, spatial installation and performance, is on display in this asynchronous and associative sequence. The main focus of the artworks is on physical infirmities. …”

The possibilities of disruption: serendipity, accidents and impasse driven search by Ross, Wendy

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Rethinking biosecurity in the 21st century: an enhanced role for civil society by Shang, Lijun, Dando, Malcolm

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The strategic business value of internet usage in small to medium-sized enterprises by Lawrence, Japhet Eke

“…The choice of SMEs as the main context of this paper is not arbitrary. It is chosen because of SMEs make significant contribution to most economies of the World. …”
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The lived experiences of female educational leaders in higher education in the UK by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…This chapter discusses female educational leaders' experiences in higher education institutions (HEI) in the UK to unravel both barriers and facilitators and their main guiding principles in leading as advancing women in leadership roles is in the best interest of the society. …”

The novel application of the lightning process to treat long COVID in primary care: case report by Finch, Fiona, Parker, Phil, Nollett, C., Burns, S.

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A comprehensive survey of fake review detection technology by Quyyam, Tayybaha, Qicheng, Yu

“…The survey also offers future research directions and an easy way to find datasets, carry out pre-processing, and extract multiple features. One of the main directions in the future is to combine review content with business, product, and reviewer behavior to improve the efficiency of FRD.…”
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“Virtual encounters: the making and manifestations of Deleuze’s Bergsonism” by Lundy, Craig

“…The publication date of Deleuze’s book on Bergson is therefore somewhat misleading, for the main features of Deleuze’s encounter with Bergson were in fact formulated much earlier.…”
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