The experience of psoriatic arthritis patients receiving biological treatment : an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Schepelern, Eva K.

“…It is argued that this research extends the current knowledge base in counselling psychology on the psychological aspects of skin conditions such as psoriasis to what it is like to have both psoriasis and arthritis, whilst also being relevant to counselling psychologists working with psychological aspects of medical conditions, which is proposed to hold a promising future for the field.…”
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A statistical study of ship domains by Goodwin, Elisabeth M.

“…The concept of a ship domain has been considered, which may be defined as the effective area around a ship which a navigator would like to keep free with respect to other ships and stationary objects. …”
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A compendium of Colombian policing challenges : from Pablo to present by Jeapes, Anthony Christian John Lloyd

“…Contemporary Colombia saw violence continue with peasant revolts in the 1920s and 30s, la Violencia in the 1940s, the formation of the insurgent groups like the FARC and ELN in the 1960s, the creation of drug cartels in the 1970s and their transformation into narco-terrorist groups and then micro traffickers in the 1980s and 1990s. …”
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Unrolling the text: using scrolls to facilitate academic reading by Abegglen, Sandra, Burns, Tom, Middlebrook, Dave, Sinfield, Sandra

“…Drawing briefly on a literature review commissioned when part of the LearnHigher Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, we consider reading not just as a semantic or linguistic activity but as a socio-political one especially for those, like our students, who are typically placed as educational outsiders. …”
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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

“…Tourist promotional texts function like advertising texts in that they aim to “persuade, lure, woo, and seduce” (Dann 1996). …”

Integral measures and framework for green lean six sigma implementation in manufacturing environment by Yadav, Vishwas, Gahlot, Pardeep, Rathi, Rajeev, Kumar, Anil, Yadav, Gunjan, Kaswan, Mahender Singh

“…In this study, GLSS integration has been proposed based on intangible features like enablers, toolsets, etc. Management dedication, participation, and team effort have been recognized as the most remarkable enablers to implement GLSS in the manufacturing sector. …”
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An assessment of performance and efficiency of team-based organizations: empirical evidence of English premier league (EPL) using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and naturalistic a... by Badmus, Shamisudeen Olusesan

“…This thesis addressed the changing focus in football management and many unresolved questions relating to Performance and Efficiency Measurement (PEM) of a team-based organisation like a Football Club (FC). At a certain point, every organisation needs to evaluate its operation in accordance with its specific objectives to assess its performance; measure the efficiency of its operation and determine if there is any need for corrective actions. …”
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CPW-fed printed UWB antenna with open-loop inverted triangular-shaped slot for WLAN band filtering by Shokri, Majid, Rafii, Vahid, Karamzadeh, Saeid, Amiri, Zhaleh, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…The antenna possesses a notch band functionality to filter out interfering C-band signals like wireless local-area network (WLAN). The notch band frequency is determined by physical parameters defining the TSS that allows fine control of the notch's location. …”
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The effect of Fractional Fourier transform angle in encryption quality for digital images by Elhoseny, Heba M., Faragallah, Osama S., Ahmed, Hossam E. H., Kazemian, Hassan, El-sayed, Hala S., Abd El-Samie, Fathi E.

“…The security investigation contains statistical tests like histogram and correlation coefficient, the maximum and the irregular deviation metrics, and the processing time. …”
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Exploring lean team development from the Tuckman's model perspective by Zirar, Araz, Muhammad, Noor, Upadhyay, Arvind, Kumar, Anil, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo

“…Lean teams achieve synergy, support, and goal focus in the performing phase, delivering six functions. However, challenges like prioritisation disagreements due to project overload still exist. …”
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Socially assistive robot "sister robot" as a Covid-19 response and its future plans in health care and clinical applications by Malla, Dipawoli, Bhandari, Pawan

“…Furthermore, it also aims to highlight the possibility of the production of Socially Assistive Robots in developing countries like Nepal and their applications in healthcare.…”
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Qualified empathy: the spectator looking/not looking away by Keefe, John

“…As knowing spectators of (mimetic) empathetic moments, we look with a critical distance as well 'feeling in', 'there but for the grace...', or degrees of moral disengagement toward the other as subject-object. This other is an 'I' like me (I am subject-object to them) in reciprocal states of mutual homeostasis and shared affordances. …”
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AI/ML enabled automation system for software defined disaggregated open radio access networks: transforming telecommunication business by Kumar, Sunil

“…This disaggregated architecture is open, automated, software defined, virtual, and supports the latest advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (AI/ML). …”
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How do counselling psychologists make sense of their clients’ psychiatric diagnoses : an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Weston, Holly

“…Two themes were identified: ‘diagnosis is something to hang your hat on,’ and ‘the bigger picture.’ Like previous research, these themes highlight the different epistemological positions taken up by counselling psychologists on diagnosis. …”
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The emerging role of exosome and microvesicle- (EMV-) based cancer therapeutics and immunotherapy by Moore, Colin, Kosgodage, Uchini S., Lange, Sigrun, Inal, Jameel

“…One promising cancer immunotherapy discussed uses cationic liposomes carrying tumour RNA (RNA‐lipoplexes) to provoke a strong anti‐viral‐like (cytotoxic CD8+) anti‐tumour immune response. …”

De Novo nucleic acids: a review of synthetic alternatives to DNA and RNA that could act as bio-information storage molecules by Devine, Kevin G., Jheeta, Sohan

“…Modern terran life uses several essential biopolymers like nucleic acids, proteins and polysaccharides. …”
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How do middle class Pakistani young people construct contemporary international conflicts? by Kazmi, Naveed

“…This investigation is of interest because young people like the ones who participated in my research may become future leaders. …”
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Nixon, Trump and Washington behind closed doors: fictionalizing Watergate and the prescience of the historical miniseries by McNally, Karen

“…This article explores the 1977 ABC miniseries Washington Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of John Ehrlichman’s novel The Company and its fictional tale of a Nixon-like president, drawing on the author’s experiences as part of the Nixon administration. …”
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"You have to know how to live with it without getting to the addiction part": British young adult experiences of smartphone over-reliance and disconnectivity by Conroy, Dom, Chadwick, Darren, Fullwood, Christopher, Lloyd, Joanne

“…A first theme – ‘It’s like an addiction’ – concerned the drift from valuing the convenience/productivity afforded by smartphones into feeling over-reliant on devices. …”
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Development of new data partitioning and allocation algorithms for query optimization of distributed data warehouse systems by Abdalla, Hassan Ismail

“…It is a non redundant optimization technique because it does not replicate data, contrary to redundant techniques like materialized views and indexes. The warehouse partitioning problem is concerned with determining the set of dimension tables to be partitioned and using them to generate the fact table fragments. …”
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