The Educational Experience of ‘African’ Students at London Metropolitan University – a Case Study by Kanu, Mohamed, Marr, Alan

“…This case study examines what studying at LondonMet was like for a small number of students coming from different ‘African’ backgrounds, i.e. from African countries and ethnic communities. …”
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Parallel querying of distributed ontologies with shared vocabulary / Index-based concurrent SPARQL query processing by Aslam, Sharjeel, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim

“…However, although SPARQL is well-established standard for querying semantic repositories in RDF and OWL format and there are commonly used APIs which supports it, like Jena for Java, its parallel option is not incorporated in them. …”
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Komplexität und semantische Transparenz im Deutschen und Englischen by Fischer, Klaus

“…Hawkins's contrastive typology of German and English that - like D. L. Everett's analysis - attempts explanation from one unifying principle. …”
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The plastic bag: forever and ever by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…After it has taken its first breath by the cashier of a grocery store, when left to its own devices, the plastic bag will contain the currents of the wind or those of the water, its membrane-like body continuing to behave according to its original design programme, even when no human users are employing it. …”
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Right-wing nationalism, populism, and religion: what are the connections and why? by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Although not the same thing, nationalism and populism are said to be closely linked. Nationalists, like populists, may claim that there is but one ‘true religion’ - that is, their own and their followers’ - which helps focus their nationalist vision. …”
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A study on the sustainable financial inclusion in selected SAARC countries: a gender-based perspective by Survase, Madan, Parida, Ratri, Antony, George V.

“…Despite of the penetration of the FI worldwide, inequality and inequity still persists, particularly in lower income countries like South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). …”
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Zones of entrapment and impunity: on the constitution of vague and strange regimes of power by Hallsworth, Simon, Stephenson, Svetlana

“…This article challenges a tendency prominent in critical theory—one that holds that being “vague and strange” constitute qualities of life opposed to the grid-like systems of coercive control intrinsic to the operation of modern power regimes which, by their ascriptive nature, are compelled to suppress all life which exhibits these traits. …”
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A proposed algorithm of random vector in measuring similarity for network topology of Bursa Malaysia by Lim, San Yee

“…The behaviors and interactions among the stocks in Bursa Malaysia are then determined by using the Forest of all possible minimum spanning trees. In this thesis, MK Land Holdings Berhad was found out to be the predominant stock in Bursa Malaysia as it displays a star-like structure and is located at the central hub of the network.…”
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Synthesis and characterization of bismuth ferrite-based ternary composites for photocatalytic degradation of Congo red under visible light by Mhamad, Shakhawan Ahmad

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Ionic liquids as additives on the electrodeposition of cobalt, nickel and its alloy onto copper in acidic sulfate bath by Omar, Inam Mohammedayoub

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Development, validation and implementation of a novel dietary salt monitor in type 2 diabetes in UK by Babber, Ranjana

“…The risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality increases manyfold in Type 2 diabetes, owing to the higher prevalence rates of hypertension. …”
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On being in the wrong place: the role of children’s conceptual understanding and ballgame experience when judging a football player’s offside position by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Bosco, Giorgia

“…Thereafter, children judged whether a designated player was in an offside position in a computerized task. Like adults, also children found it easier to judge when a player was in a wrong rather than a right place. …”
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Beyond behaviour: changing foods as well as changing people by Winkler, Jack

“…Like many specialists in public health, Clarke focuses on “ways to change and sustain our individual behaviour.” …”

Preventing and designing out plagiarism : making the most of VLEs and CAA tools by Baños-Piñero, Rocío

“…The role of new technologies is such that new terms like "cyber plagiarism" or "digital plagiarism" (Park, 2003: 481) and "cyber cheating" or "e-cheating" (Jones et al., 2008) have been coined to refer to the use of new technologies for dishonest purposes. …”
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Your password is music to my ears: cloud-based authentication using sound by Phipps, Anthony, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…Whilst this removes barriers to use for those with accessibility challenges like visual impairment or motor skills issues and opens up a much more convenient user experience, a number of cyber security threats remain unanswered. …”
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Miniaturized planar ultra-wideband slot antenna with an interference suppressing capability by Masoumi, Masoume, Amiri, Zhaleh, Ghaedi, Farshad, Sahraban, Amene, Hayati, Soghra, Shokry, Majed, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…In this article analysis of antenna parameters like radiation characteristics, survey of surface currents and antenna gain will be presented.…”
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Indium tin oxide thin films: an ideal transparent and conductive oxides contact for solar cells application by Aliyu, Kabiru Isiyaku, Ali, Ahmad Hadi, Nayan, Nafarizal

“…Furthermore, the integration of different materials like metals, semiconductors, ceramics, plastics molecular and polymer organics into these devices have called for the provision of an improve TCO materials with required functional morphology, high performance and new processibility [5].…”
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Influence of silver and gold nanoparticles on the characteristics of dysprosium-activated lithium strontium-zinc-borate glasses by Ahmad, Ahmad Umar

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Flashover performance of lightning protected buildings using scaled models and electric field analysis by Ullah, Irshad

“…Interestingly, the overall work data had shown that the pyramid-like shapes is found to be the best structure type to be used in reducing the LAT bypasses and direct strike damages. …”
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Architecture, sinon repression: a journey through the narrow layer where the State meets the land by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…Striation is the result of the intervention of man who, while colonising a territory, drew lines on it like on a wax tablet. This intervention progressively created homogeneity and facilitated movement through the territory. …”
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