Green-lean operations evaluation framework: a case from Iranian automotive industry by Ojani, Shabnam, Avakh Darestani, Soroush

“…The results showed that the use of environmental-friendly and recyclable packaging materials and the increase in the useful life of packaged materials ranked as top two in the Green-Lean in this realm. …”
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The impact of online word of mouth on consumer decision-making: the case of cinema audiences by Wallace, Richard P. D.

“…These findings are attributed to the peculiar nature of motion pictures, as they are unique experience goods commonly only consumed once, have a very short life cycle, and are heavily marketing-driven, leading to a rapid decline in revenues after their opening.…”
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Towards understanding and improving the process of small group collaborative learning in software engineering education by Oriogun, Peter

“…The research portfolio supporting the submission specifically deals with a number of background studies (the establishment of an optimal software life cycle process model for teaching software engineering in the small group collaborative setting) leading to the development of an appropriate pedagogical approach for underpinning small group learning, understanding the type of learning interaction that was taking place within such small group learning, and finally, the development of appropriate methods for analysing collaborative small group learning in software engineering education. …”
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Longevity and reinvention: Venetianization and the Biennale by Gold, John Robert, Gold, Margaret

“…The final parts look at current issues, including the problems facing the city’s historic core and the rising disquiet of citizens feeling themselves overwhelmed by the impact of mass cultural tourism on the city’s everyday life. It is noted that the hiatus in activity caused by the response to COVID-19 has fed calls for rethinking Venice’s relationship with art, tourism, and urban development. …”
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The big menopause: the word just seems wrong! An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Christian women’s experience of the menopause by Beckford, Jane Elizabeth

“…Aim: To address the gap in research knowledge in terms of understanding how women of faith may utilise their beliefs to make sense of menopause, or conversely, how menopause may challenge women’s experience of their faith at this stage of life. Method: A qualitative study investigated the lived experience of six Christian women who were perimenopausal or up to five years postmenopausal. …”
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'I am afraid to fly there': informal care in Polish migrants' families immobilised by COVID-19 by Kloc-Nowak, Weronika, Ryan, Louise

“…This paper discusses the COVID-19 pandemic as a new external challenge to transnational family life that can undermine the care arrangements and intentions developed by the families of Polish migrants following the 2004 EU enlargement. …”
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'You would never pick up the thread from where you left off’: older Irish women migrants' narratives of non‐return, post‐retirement by Ryan, Louise, Doshi, Neha

“…However, using the embedding framework, through a life course lens, we argue that non‐return may reflect complex processes of disembedding and non‐belonging in the origin country – which are less easy to articulate.…”
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Social networks and migration: relocations, relationships and resources by Ryan, Louise

“…Moreover, using mixed methods, including visualisation, as well longitudinal methods from follow-up interviews, I employment methodological innovations to understand how networks of relationships evolve and change over time and through the life course, especially in the ageing process.…”

Cross-linked enzyme aggregates and entrapment immobilization of maltogenic amylase from Bacillus lehensis G1 for Maltooligosaccharides synthesis by Nawawi, Noor Namirah

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Enhancing wireless power transfer efficiency for potential use in cardiovascular applications by Lum, Kin Yun

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Using case studies in accounting : a case study of the challenges confronting lecturers by Alderman, Roger

“…Percival and Ellington (1980) define it succinctly as "an in-depth examination of a real life or simulated situation carried out to illustrate special and/or general characteristics". …”
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Re-thinking recovery in post-conflict settings: supporting the mental well-being of communities in Colombia by Burgess, Rochelle Ann, Fonseca, Laura

“…Analysis of focus groups with 40 internally displaced men and women established definitions for emotional distress and recovery as parallel processes linked to the fracture and rebuilding of social worlds and family life. Definitions were shaped heavily by cultural, political, economic and legal contexts of everyday survival, often linked to experiences of structural and symbolic forms of violence. …”

Clay ingestion during pregnancy among black African women in a North London Borough: understanding cultural meanings, integrating indigenous and biomedical knowledge systems by Madziva, Cathrine, Chinouya, Martha J.

“…Reasons for clay ingestion include curbing morning sickness, nausea, satisfying cravings, “mineral deficiency” and other life sustaining beliefs. However, Public Health practitioners' top down approach and response which considers the practice as “dangerous” and potentially harmful to the health of the woman and unborn child with midwives and General Practitioner doctors called upon to discourage it, risks alienating the target population. …”
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Cultural localisation as a strategy to preserve the persuasive function in the translation of tourism websites from French into English by Cowan, Sally Elizabeth

“…In the context of global marketing, tourists can be considered consumers who seek to escape from ordinary life carrying their culturally embedded mindsets with them. …”

Framing wilderness: the view from the city by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…In the process, the open territory is thus turned from a potentially life-threatening wandering into a navigable spatial arrangement of resources.…”
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Power, influence and impact of Senedd committees - developing a framework for measuring committees’ effectiveness by Stirbu, Diana

“…Its committee system sits at the very heart of parliamentary and democratic life in Wales. Therefore ensuring that the Senedd committees work effectively and achieve the intended positive impact is crucial for the well functioning of Welsh democracy. …”
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The exquisite corporealities of Leibniz: performance as embodied practice of thought and documentary praxis by Spackman, Helen

“…Our particular research interests reside in the ways in which the embodied and transient acts of performance and the im-material traces it generates and/or leaves behind might together serve as an accessible and vibrant means of exploring and articulating marginalized life experiences, concerns and aspirations. While issues concerning the documentation of performance as an inherently ephemeral art form have recently preoccupied critical debate within the intertwined fields of contemporary Live Art and Performance Studies to which our creative and critical practice as LEIBNIZ belongs, this dissertation examines the ways in which performance can itself serve as a vibrant and accessible means of both recording and generating experience with reference to the four LEIBNIZ projects (namely: The Book of Dust, The Ship of Fools, The Book of Blood: Human Writes and Ghost Letters) presented as case studies in this submission of PhD by prior output.…”
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Maltese children's construction of identities through their engagement with the media by Muscat, Gaetana

“…Given the historical and cultural conditions of the Current era, they seem to emerge at an early age and could potentially last until later on in life.…”
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Data platform and urban data services on private cloud by Vassilev, Vassil, Virdee, Bal Singh, Ouazzane, Karim, Mariyanayagam, Dion, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor, Rabka, Monika, Maosa, Herbert, Radu, Sorin

“…By employing a number of proven data technologies, software tools, and AI methods the project delivers a comprehensive picture of urban life. The first phase of the project reported here focuses on outdoor and indoor pollution, which are the keys for addressing many local community activities such as environment protection, urban planning, local transport, communal housing, and social services within the area.…”
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Making women in finance count: not just counting women - exploring female accountants' experiences in SMEs in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…The present study investigated the views of 22 women who were working as accountants in six SMEs to reveal the barriers they faced as they tried to maintain a work-life balance, especially as all of them were wives and mothers and have chosen to enter a male-dominated field. …”