The geopolitical context of NATO's role in the Middle East by Orfy, Mohammed Moustafa

“…Questions remain unanswered concerning the limits of NATO's role in the region and whether or not NATO is able to help in improving regional security through cooperative links with select Middle Eastern partners. This dissertation seeks to ascertain whether or not NATO has indeed expanded its role in the region; whether this enhanced role is adequate to post-9/11 challenges; and whether this role - specifically or in general - has been used as a tool of US foreign policy in the region. …”
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Determinants of online brand communities’ and millennials’ characteristics: a social influence perspective by Ozuem, Wilson, Willis, Michelle, Howell, Kerry, Lancaster, Geoff, Ng, Raye

“…Unlike other competing epistemologies, the authors developed a conceptual framework that links a holistic set of OBCs’ characteristics (brand sentiment, identification with source, affirmative experience, conspicuous effect) to consumers’ perceptions in the fashion sector. …”
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Voice and visibility: tackling the ‘invisibility’ of the sexual orientation strand in UK organisation equality and diversity research by Colgan, Fiona

“…The covering document provides details of the research projects and the interpretivist case study methodology on which the published outputs draw. It summarises and links the aims and principal findings of each output demonstrating that they form a coherent body of work. …”
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Water level monitoring and controlling of water treatment plants using wireless sensors in LabVIEW by Obeed, Kamal Mushina

“…We have proposed, developed and tested hardware module based on two Arduino Mega2560 boards linked wirelessly by using two NRF transceivers. Remote Arduino is designed to monitor the water flow and the level of the distribution tank besides controlling the water level whenever is necessary. …”
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Holistic Course Design: proposals for a short course on biosafety by Perumal, Dhayaneethie

“…Furthermore, several countries have embarked on international initiatives to strengthen emergency preparedness in response to terrorist activities (‘bio-terrorism’) by linking academic expertise to state and local health agency needs. …”
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Participation in vocational further education : a study of factors influencing entry into commercial, construction and engineering training in Inner London by Sammons, Pamela Mary

“…Attention has been paid to vocational preferences and job ambitions, due to their close links with training choices. The study adopted an inter-disciplinary approach. …”
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Posthumanist panic cinema? The films of Andrew Niccol by Baldwin, Jon

“…Niccol wrote The Truman Show (1998) and was writer and director of Gattaca (1997), S1m0ne (2002), In Time (2011), and Good Kill (2014). A consideration that links these films is a reflection upon posthuman cinema itself. …”
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Engagement through partnership: students as partners in learning and teaching in Higher Education by Harrington, Kathy, Flint, Abbi, Healey, Mick

“…Students as partners is a concept which interweaves through many other debates, including assessment and feedback, employability, flexible pedagogies, internationalisation, linking teaching and research, and retention and success. …”
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How do gay men experience ruptures in the relationship with their therapist? An interpretative phenomenological study by Brooke, Philip

“…The study also found that rupture overlaps with the difficulties commonly experienced as part of the therapeutic process, making it difficult to define rupture. The researcher links the findings to minority stress theory, and suggests that an over-emphasis on the transferential relationship in therapy, and rigidity in therapeutic approach, can impede the collaborative process that is more likely to lead to reparation with this client group, especially when they are at an early stage in their gay identity development. …”
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Black Workers and BME networks organising against racism in the NHS workplace by Carter, Nigel Geoffrey

“…The concept ‘racial capitalism’ is also linked to race and class theories of Black self-organised resistance to racism in the UK context. …”
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Expression of soluble active fluorescently tagged hephaestin in COS and CHO cell lines by Aslan, Elif Sibel, White, Kenneth, Syed, Basharut A., Srai, Kaila S., Evans, Robert W.

“…Hp was originally identified as the gene responsible for the phenotype of sex-linked anaemia in the sla mouse. The mutation in the sla protein causes accumulation of dietary iron in duodenal cells, causing severe microcytic hypochromic anaemia. …”
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Effects of parenting experiences and early maladaptive schemas on adjustment to atopic dermatitis by Kalaki, Elli

“…Results suggest that: a) people with an early and a late onset of atopic dermatitis were presented with a certain schematic profile that differentiated them from participants in the control groups; b) a certain pattern of early parenting experiences was linked to the development of this schematic profile and c) this schematic profile predicted high levels of dysfunctional coping and difficulties in adjustment. …”
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The crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Alkylhydroperoxidase AhpD, a potential target for antitubercular drug design by Nunn, Christine M., Djordjevic, Snezana, Hillas, Patrick J., Nishida, Clinton R., Ortiz de Montellano, Paul R.

“…The resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to isoniazid is commonly linked to inactivation of a catalase-peroxidase, KatG, that converts isoniazid to its biologically active form. …”

Algerian immigrants in London (United Kingdom) and Valencia (Spain): towards a new migration and labour model? by Djilali Beloufa, Kouider

“…During the last two decades, one of the most important changes in the geography of Algerian migration has been its gradual spread to some "new" contexts, that can be located differently in a spectrum of various characteristics, such as geographical location, historical-cultural links, existence of networks, and profiles of Algerian migrants, among others. …”
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The publishing industry, the ideological framework and foreign aid in Tanzania by Nyerembe, Malima Paul

“…The study argues that Tanzania's post-colonial development attempts and those after SAP have been linked with initiatives and active participation of institutions in foreign aid allocation as well as the development of policy formulation, despite the policy of socialism and self-reliance. …”
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880 by Livingstone, Janet Elizabeth

“…Pauper schooling involved central supervision, inspection and local management and was inextricably linked with Poor Law strategies to depauperise and to administer strict relief policies. …”
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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

“…The results show that animal rights activism and linked extremism has been effectively brought under control but collectively 'protest law' has been altered. …”
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C2 by-pass: cross-talk between the complement classical and alternative pathways by Laich, Andy, Patel, Hershna, Zarantonello, A., Sim, R. B., Inal, Jameel

“…Deficiencies of classical pathway (CP) components are generally linked to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or SLE-like syndromes. …”
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The importance of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids for fetal immune system maturation and function by Moodley, Therishnee

“…Long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs) are important structural components in the cell membrane and a deficiency in these fatty acids have been linked to clinical complications. In addition, omega 3 and omega 6 LCPUFAs are biologically active substrates for the synthesis of regulators of inflammatory processes. …”
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Mutuality vs freedom: competing moral panics in the UK debate over the wearing of masks during the pandemic by Collins, Jeremy

“…Throughout these changes of policy, a debate developed in which mask-wearing became, in part at least, linked to issues of moral and social responsibility. …”
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