How does localism for standards work in practice? The practitioner’s view of local standards post Localism Act 2011 by Feild, Paul Richard

“…The thesis provides evidence to support the finding that the Localism Act’s duty on local authorities to promote and maintain standards of conduct of members is subject to local culture and by the removal of the national oversight of the former Standards Board, Standards for England and the Audit Commission, standards can only be maintained and improved by close regard to the Committee for Standards in Public life guidance and practitioners working together as in the sample partnership applying best practice Critical Success Factors and actions to promote the raising of standards of elected members. …”
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Walking the talent tightrope : becoming a 'top cop' in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) by Heritage, Tamsyn J.

“…Chief police officers represent a small cadre of individuals who have risen to occupy some of the most important and, arguably, testing roles within modern British public life, wielding a powerful influence over crime, security and safety in the UK. …”
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Faster and more accurate identification of male faces in female care home residents by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Martinez-Claras, Donna S.

“…Because the known masculinity bias in women prevailed beyond the menopause, it is discussed whether rather than fertility hormones, women’s testosterone would be a likely candidate explaining the male advantage in sex-of-face identification throughout the life-span.…”
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A computer aided drawing system evaluation with early and late blind users by Fernando, Sandra, Ohene-Djan, James

“…The present lack of suitable and efficient graphics creation techniques may place limitations on the career progression and life contentment of blind students. It is challenging for a BVI (Blind and Visually Impaired) person to draw diagrams or art, which are commonly taught in education or used in industry. …”
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Analysing the roadblocks of circular economy adoption in the automobile sector: reducing waste and environmental perspectives by Agrawal, Rohit, Wankhede, Vishal A., Kumar, Anil, Luthra, Sunil

“…Non-biodegradable and manufacturing waste after the end of life usage results in a significant contribution to incineration, landfills, air acidification and water eutrophication. …”
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Gender inequality and academic freedom in Pakistani higher education by Fakhr, Zainab, Messenger, Hazel

“…In developing countries, women tend to be either absent from many organisations or exist at the margins of organisational life with the result that they have fewer opportunities for development or career progression. …”
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Effects of parenting experiences and early maladaptive schemas on adjustment to atopic dermatitis by Kalaki, Elli

“…Onset of the condition usually occurs in early life. Some people however, do develop it much later. …”
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Phronesis by Lee, Nirmala

“…Practical reasoning is the stuff of practical life. It is not the stuff of theoretical science. …”
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Global China by Ling, Wessie, Segre-Reinach, Simona

“…The implication of China as a global actor has manifested into transformations in East Asia (Pieke and Iwabuchi 2021) that are tightly interwoven with all aspects of life, modernities, and aesthetic formation, giving rise to the so-called Asia Century (Lee, Moon and Tu 2019). …”
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An integrated Machine Learning framework for fraud detection: a comparative and comprehensive approach by Ouazzane, Karim, Polykarpou, Thekla, Patel, Yogesh, Li, Jun

“…For demonstration purpose, the framework is implemented on a set of real-life online banking transaction datasets obtained from a UK-based bank through three models, i.e., Support Vector Machine, Markov Model and LSTM model, with various combinational features of the datasets evidenced in the exploratory analysis and modelling with noise ratios of datasets, range values of model parameters and confidence intervals of prediction results. …”
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New feature engineering framework for deep learning in financial fraud detection by Ikeda, Chie, Ouazzane, Karim, Yu, Qicheng, Hubenova, Svetla

“…In the experiment, a real-life transaction dataset has been used which was provided by a private bank in Europe and built autoencoder models with three different types of datasets: With original data, with created features and with selected effective features. …”
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Practical poetics: rhythmic spatiality and the communicative movement between site, architecture and sculpture by Lynch, Patrick

“…Crucially, the revelation of the structure of relationships between site, place, social life, the natural world, etc., which make up the architectural conditions for civic praxis, is the basis also of ornament and decorum in the arts generally. …”
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The English public library as an agency for social stability c. 1850-1919 by Black, Alistair Matthew

“…Inaugurated by legislation in 1850 the municipal public library had by the end of the First World War become a common feature of urban life. The research and writing of public library history has been myopic; the subject has received little attention from historians working in broader fields. …”
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Establishing and maintaining employee motivation from recruitment through Induction, transition and retirement by Ungemah, Joseph Michael

“…This dissertation explores how motivation changes across the employee life cycle, from recruitment through induction, transition, and retirement. …”
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Advancing the embedding framework: using longitudinal methods to revisit French highly skilled migrants in the context of Brexit by Mulholland, Jon, Ryan, Louise

“…Moreover, our longitudinal data, gathered through repeated interviews over seven years (2011-2018), enables analysis of how participants’ experiences and evaluations of life and work in the UK changed, over time, in response to Brexit. …”
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Studies on the residue chemistry of some organophosphorus pesticides by Soares, Vera Maria

“…Hydrolytic studies have shown that mecarbam at 70°C in 50% ethanol (buffer pH 7.0) has a half-life of approximately 3 hours. Chlormephos is considerably more stable. …”
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Will we ever go back to normal? An international exploration of the impact of Covid-19 on tourism teaching in 5 countries by Bamford, Jan

“…Both had to navigate uncertain waters to deliver higher education which appeared to be a forgotten sector by governments, as well as dealing with life during the pandemic and changes to lifestyle not witnessed in this generation. …”
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Atorvastatin rapidly reduces hepatitis B viral load in combination with Tenofovir: a prospective clinical trial by Gharehbeglou, M., Yazdani, S., White, Kenneth, Haeri, M. R., Masoumzadeh, N.

“…After three months of the treatment, there was no detectable HBV DNA in 50% of the atorvastatin + tenofovir-treated group compared with 30% in the control group. The half-life of plasma viral load was 2.03 and 3.32 months in the atorvastatin + tenofovir-treated and control groups, respectively. …”
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The space paradox in graphic representation by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Vinueza Chavez, Ximena

“…A sample of 96 children from 5 to 12 years of age and 24 adults (N = 120) drew on a computer tablet a real-life model spacebox placed in front of the participant, with three cubes placed inside the model. …”
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Application of graph-based technique to identity resolution by Kazemian, Hassan, Amirhosseini, Mohammad-Hossein, Phillips, Michael

“…These days the ability to prove an individual identity is crucial in social, economic and legal aspects of life. Identity resolution is the process of semantic reconciliation that determines whether a single identity is the same when being described differently. …”
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