UK apartment construction impact on carbon life cycle calculations by Din, Asif, Brotas, Luisa

“…The BRE quantification does not take into account foundations leading to a climate change impact 3 times lower than a bottom up analysis for a steel building.…”
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Assessment of climate change on UK dwelling indoor comfort by Din, Asif, Brotas, Luisa

“…Designers need to think about thermal mass usage in living rooms to cater for extreme temperature events rather than the whole of the cooling season to delay the adoption of active cooling.…”
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Modelling long-run trends and cycles in financial time series data by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Cuñado, Juncal, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…Moreover, the spectrum is allowed to contain more than a single pole or singularity, occurring at zero and non-zero (cyclical) frequencies. …”
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The challenges and utilization of e-commerce: use of Internet by small to medium-sized enterprises in the United Kingdom by Lawrence, Japhet Eke

“…SMEs account for more than 50% of private-sector employment in the UK and currently are contributing most of the private sector employment growth. …”
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Turkey’s draft constitutional amendments: a critical perspective by Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi, Gozaydin, Istar

“…Furthermore, this important decision was taken in a plebiscite held under state of emergency conditions, after the failed coup attempt and in an authoritarian political atmosphere that has been gradually increasing for more than half a decade. In this regard, this article explains two major points; the constitutional history of contemporary Turkey with its Ottoman background, and the AKP’s political journey that is a swing from hope to oppression. …”
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Taking the implementation of ECtHR judgments seriously : right assessment, wrong approaches? by Lambert-Abdelgawad, Elisabeth

“…The workload of the Committee of Ministers (CoM) is increasing dramatically (as of June 2010 more than 9,000 cases were pending) and consequently the time taken for execution is rising and furthermore “the last few years have seen a significant increase in the number of cases relating to complex and sensitive issues”. …”
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The domestic sources of détente: state-society relations and foreign policy change during the Cold War by Chryssogelos, Angelos, Martill, Benjamin

“…Our analysis suggests key moments of international change are best understood as domestic incorporation strategies rather than instances of significant and principled foreign policy change.…”
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Donald Trump, the Christian right and COVID-19: the politics of religious freedom by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…The paper is organised as follows: first, we identify the importance of religious freedom for the more than 20 million Americans who self-classify as Christian evangelicals. …”
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The Nature of Information: an analysis of the historically situated socio-cultural assumptions concerning the nature of information under changing technological conditions of its p... by Tredinnick, Luke

“…The research is broadly situated within a post-structuralist perspective, but is eclectic in its use of theoretical paradigms for their capacity to reveal aspects of a problem, rather than to provide final or foundational claims. It emphasises subjective meanings and experiences over final or foundational theories.…”
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Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving by Ross, Wendy, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric

“…However, participants performed significantly worse when shuffling, which suggests luck plays less of a role than has been previously suggested. Granular analysis of seven critical cases revealed arbitrary path dependency across both conditions and moments of missed luck. …”
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Nurturing student writing knowledge, self-regulation, and attitudes in higher education by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Students' pre-test and post-test scores showed that SA improved undergraduate students' writing performance more than PA. The findings from students' pre- and post-implementation survey revealed that SA had a strong impact on students' self-regulation. …”

"Loved and not judged": how African/Caribbeans with a diagnosis of schizophrenia experience the therapeutic relationship in psychological therapy: an interpretative phenomenologica... by Thomas-Hibbert, Veniece

“…African/Caribbean’s are more likely than white and other ethnic groups to be diagnosed with Schizophrenia and tend to have poorer therapeutic outcomes. …”
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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.

“…Using a sample of 132 motion pictures released between April and September 2010 and more than 38,000 online ratings from a social network, word of mouth is clustered into two dimensions: volume, representing the amount of online posts, and valence, representing the aggregate opinion of consumers on a particular film. …”
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Heritage land in the United States: continuity and conflict by Roberts, John

“…Various federal agencies have a role in protecting heritage land, none more so than the National Park Service since its founding in 1916. …”
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Advances in Qucs-S schematic capture for SPICE and Verilog-A device modelling and circuit simulation by Brinson, Mike, Tomaszewski, Daniel

“…This development, particularly when combined with SPICE behavioural device modelling, allows automatic generation of Verilog-A device modules rather than going through the manual conversion process from SPICE netlists to Verilog-A code modules. …”
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Leadership for sustainability in higher education amidst the COVID-19 crisis: exploring female educational leaders' strategies for transformation by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Notably, and unique to this study, they show that feminine traits and inclusive leadership styles may be more efficacious in contemporary leadership contexts than generally believed.…”

Housing space use in the pandemic and after: the case for new design guidance by Holliss, Frances, Barac, Matthew

“…In this project a secondary analysis of more than 100 case studies of homeworkers, including knowledge workers, craftworkers, service-workers, micro-retailers and creative practitioners amongst others, generated a series of twelve homeworking scenarios. …”
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The power of peer assessment as an inclusive learning strategy in management education: fostering social justice at the tertiary level by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…As an inclusive assessment practice, PA presupposes that individual learners’ needs and tastes are taken into consideration, as far as possible, to ensure that all students have an opportunity to succeed focusing on their strengths rather than their weaknesses. The overall aim is to unravel areas for improvement and supporting students throughout their learning journey. …”
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Healthier catering initiatives in London, UK: An effective tool for encouraging healthier consumption behaviour? by Bagwell, Sue

“…Such voluntary agreements, rather than legislation, are the UK government’s preferred strategy. …”
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Compact and broadband 4×4 SIW Butler matrix with phase and magnitude error reduction by Karamzadeh, Saeid, Rafii, Vahid, Kartal, Mesut, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The proposed design in this letter prevents the loss of amplitude and phase shifts in Butler matrix and decreases amplitude imbalance to less than 0.6 dB. This is achieved by reducing the size of Butler matrix and avoiding the use of a line length which causes a phase shift.…”
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