Critical perspectives on the security and protection of human rights defenders

“…Defenders often face serious threats and can experience harm by state and non-state actors. Since the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders in 1998, there has been considerable effort to recognise and protect the right of individuals, groups and communities to promote and protect their own rights and the rights of others. …”

Gender role conflict and alcohol metacognitions : implications for the Marlatt Model of Relapse Prevention by Cook, Nicholas

“…The present study argues that development of a triphasic metacognitive formulation for problematic drinking (Spada, Caselli, & Wells, 2012) represents the single most important advance in alcohol treatment since the advent of the Marlatt model. The formulation postulates that a reduction in positive and negative alcohol metacognitive beliefs leads to a reduction in alcohol use. …”
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The risk and return trade-off in the film industry : a comparative empirical analysis by Teti, Emanuele

“…Despite its proved riskiness, the film industry is one of the most economically relevant industries in the world, constantly undergoing rapid change and development, since every day millions of dollars, pounds, euros or other currencies are invested in film productions. …”
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Economic abuse as an invisible form of domestic violence: a multicountry review by Postmus, Judy L., Hoge, Gretchen L., Breckenridge, Jan, Sharp-Jeffs, Nicola, Chung, Donna

“…Our review found that there is growing clarity and consistency of terminologies being used in these articles and found some consistency in the use of validated measures. Since this research is in its “infancy,” we need to have stronger collaborative efforts to use similar measures and terminology. …”

K-Nearest Neighbours Based Classifiers for Moving Object Trajectories Reconstruction by Afzal, Muhammad Majid, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil

“…The use of a predefined model allows to avoid this since the data is naturally filtered. Experiments on different input video streams demonstrate that the proposed approach is efficient for solving the tracking of moving objects in input streams in real time because it needs less granular information from the input stream. …”
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Evaluating a socially responsible employment program: beneficiary impacts and stakeholder perceptions by Walker, Matthew, Hills, Stephen, Heere, Bob

“…This is a problematic omission since many programs carry the stigma of marketing ploys used to bolster organizational image or reduce consumer skepticism. …”
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‘I didn’t know what strong was until it was required’: factors that promote retention among homeless students in higher education by Mulrenan, Patrick, Atkins, Julia, Cox, Simon

“…Homelessness has been increasing in the UK since 2010, particularly in London. Combined with the widening participation initiative, which encourages access to Higher Education for more disadvantaged communities, this means that increasing numbers of students may face homelessness during their studies. …”
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Three Days in the Life of a Full-Time Working, Studying Mum (or How To Avoid Your PhD): Reflections by Brown, Karen Jane

“…In preparation for putting pen to paper (or fingers to typewriter), there have been three guiding principles that I have considered since starting my PhD. Firstly, you are more likely to achieve your goals if you sit down and write for one hour each day, five days consecutively, than if you attempt to sit down and write for five hours the same day. …”
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Developing empathic resonance in interprofessional education and practice by Whitehead, Graham

“…This initiative has seen significant developments in practitioner training since this call for action. The implications of this theme impact public health and social care delivery in multi-disciplinary & multi-agency arenas, with vital service outcomes impacted by the quality of teamwork and communication. …”
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Evaluating the role of the professional children's librarian: an analysis of functions and development by Fraser, Dorne Margaret

“…The reduction of specialist foundation courses, the introduction of generalist staffing structures and an increasing tendency for heads of service to fulfil a ('portmanteau' role have contributed to the decline of the specialist area, Since the mid 1980's children's librarianship has changed direction, with a clear move from practitioner to enabler and co-ordinator. …”
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Britain, Germany and the European Security and Defence Policy: constructivist socialisation at work? by Ladzik, Jeannette

“…This thesis investigates the European Security and Defence Policy (ESOP) which has evolved rapidly since its establishment at the Cologne European Council in June 1999. …”
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The formulation of an author's 'other' in late postmodern fiction by Snider, Zachary

“…Their younger brother, Josef, is a strapping soccer star failing most his college classes in Tampa, whose pregnancy-faking girlfriend has been stealing from him since freshman year. In privileged Dallas society, their father, Xavier, CEO of the Schneider Building Company (a homebuilding and real estate facade for his illegal activity), must decide to whom he will leave the family business, now that he has survived a heart attack. …”
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A soy-yoghurt-honey product as a therapeutic functional food: mode of action and narrative review by Berg, Aloys, McCarthy, H. David

“…The original formula of this product was created more than thirty years ago and since that time it has become well established as a food supplement supporting a healthy lifestyle. …”
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Gender equality or employment promotion? The politicization of parental leave policy in Finland by Nygard, Mikael, Nyby, Josefine, Kuisma, Mikko

“…We argue that ideological factors delayed a reform of the leave system in a more gender-equal way, since left-wing parties did not only put more emphasis on gender equality and state-regulated leave quotas for fathers than conservatives, they also did so for somewhat other reasons connected with the Social Investment paradigm. …”
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Age-hypogamy, emotional intelligence, sexual self-efficacy, and subjective happiness associations by Thomas, Marilyn, Banbury, Samantha, Lusher, Joanne, Chandler, Chris

“…Results suggested that age-hypogamy relationships scored higher on levels of E.I., S.H., and SSE when compared to women in age-homogamy relationships. Since SSE, E.I., and S.H. are associated with fulfilling intimate relationships, this study questions the preconceived notion that age-hypogamy relationships are any less fulfilling or successful than those in age-homogamy relationships. …”
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FOSS CAD/EDA tools supporting the open access PDK initiative by Brinson, Mike, Grabinski, Wladek

“…The semiconductor industry has been evolving and innovating for the past 75 years, ever since the first semiconductor transistor was invented. …”
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Energizing an IoT sensor using regenerative opposite fringing fields from an embedded communicating patch antenna by Kumar, Sundeep, Kumar, Manoj, Sharma, Ashwani, Garcia Zuazola, Ignacio Julio

“…For the realization, two co-polarized fringing field harvesters are capacitively coupled to the radiating edges of the patch to regenerate those opposite fringes whose currents are effectively matched to the FWR using a pair of Schottky diodes for direct current (DC) power generation. Since the gain and efficiency of the patch, in WIT mode, are favoured when using the FWR network, the effective regenerative fields, which are deemed attractive in modern wireless sensor network (WSN) applications for boosting the lifespan of sensor nodes.…”
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White feminist stories : locating race in the narratives of British feminism by Jonsson, Terese

“…The thesis argues that white feminist racism haunts the dominant narrative of British feminism – as something which is repeatedly erased or evaded each time it is brought to view – and it calls for white feminist academics and activists to reckon with the long history of racism and imperialism which has been integral to the British feminist project since its inception.…”
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Settlement behaviour of soft soil stabilized with soil-cement columns using constant rate of strain method by Raftari, Mehdi

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Application of magnetic field for reduction of sludge bulking in activated sludge system by Zaidi, Nur Syamimi

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