Padania or Northern Italy? The invention of a national community in the words of the Lega Nord by Albertazzi, Daniele

“…The case of 'Padania' is then referred back to contemporary theories of nationalism and globalisation in order to find out what 'Padania' has to teach about identity-formation in the contemporary world. …”
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Modelling and comparing OECD countries' consumer behaviour by Stewart, Chris

“…\Ve build ECMs consistent with valid error-correction behaviour for eighteen countries and find evidence favouring asymmetric/nonlinear adjustment for twelve countries. …”
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Simulation modelling of spatial problems by Shapiro, Janet

“…The development of simulation modelling technology is examined to find reasons why there should be a reluctance to use the technique. …”
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The Viceroyalty of Lord Reading, 1921-1926: with particular reference to the political and constitutional progress of India by Turnbull, Christine Hazel

“…After a series of unbalanced budgets, India was facing severe economic problems in 1921, and Reading needed to find a solution. In foreign affairs two areas caused concern, the problems of Indians living in southern Africa, and the threat of Russian Involvement in Afghanistan. …”
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Adaptive function modal learning neural networks by Kang, Miao

“…A multi-layer approach, a Multi-layer ADFUNN (MADFUNN) is introduced to solve highly complex datasets. It aims to find a suitably restricted subset of neuron activation functions which has a good representational capacity and enables efficient learning for complex models with large datasets. …”
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SARS-Cov-2 variants: biological and mathematical considerations for nomenclature by Huang, Jie, Mi, Yi, Li, Junxi, McLean, Gary R.

“…Our aim is to define a biological and structurally defined metric that can be used to distinguish SARS-CoV-2 variants interactions with host cells. This metric could find utility with numerous human viruses and provide an additional parameter for improved naming of viruses.…”
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Application of graph-based technique to identity resolution by Kazemian, Hassan, Amirhosseini, Mohammad-Hossein, Phillips, Michael

“…This method can assist police forces in their investigation process to find criminals and those who committed a fraud. It can also be useful in other fields such as finance and banking, marketing or customer service.…”
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Rethinking jewellery for Korea: a practice-led approach to creating high-visibility wearables by Choi, Won Jeong

“…The challenge for the designer-researcher, therefore, is to find a way to neutralize that tension between the two, so that high-visibility wearables can be accepted as socially desirable. …”
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Transformational jewellery: practice-based research on the relationship between transformation and emotional attachment by Kim, Min Sun

“…The chief aims of this practice-based research are to investigate the nature of attachment between person and object in respect to transformation; to find ways in which objects (jewellery) can be transformed to engender a wearer’s emotional attachment; and to demonstrate the different ways of applying such transformations that are pertinent to jewellery. …”
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Inter-individual responses to a blueberry intervention across multiple endpoints by Wang, Yueyue, Haskell-Ramsay, Crystal, Gallegos, Jose Lara, Lodge, John K.

“…To conclude, this is the first blueberry intervention applying quartile divisions to characterise individual responses in vascular and cognitive endpoints following a specific dietary intervention; however, we did not find any consistency in the individual responses to the interventions, and we could not identify a predictive urinary metabolite as a potential biomarker for differentiation between responders and non-responders. …”
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Fast modelling of tidal phenomenon for the Straits of Malacca using laplace spatial interpolation technique by Kanchana Gunathilaka, Malavige Don Eranda

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Households energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of Mahabad City, Iran by Soltani, Mohammad

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Ant colony optimization of shielding for mixed neutron and gamma radiations by Sazali, Muhammad Arif

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A note comparing support vector machines and ordered choice models' predictions of international banks' ratings by Bellotti, Tony, Matousek, Roman, Stewart, Chris

“…We find that Support Vector Machines virtually always predict international bank ratings better than ordered choice models. …”
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Prevalence, predictors and prevention of motion sickness in zero-G parabolic flights by Golding, John F., Paillard, Aurore, Normand, Hervé, Besnard, Stéphane, Denise, Pierre

“…The aim was to assess the extent of this problem and to find possible predictors and modifying factors. …”
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Rhamnolipids nano-micelles as a potential hand sanitizer by Bakkar, Marwa Reda, Faraag, Ahmed Hassan Ibrahim, Soliman, Elham R. S., Fouda, Manar S., Sarguos, Amir Mahfouz Mokhtar, McLean, Gary R., Hebishy, Ali M. S., Elkhouly, Gehad E., Raya, Nermeen R., Abo-zeid, Yasmin

“…Thus, the obtained results indicate that SARS-CoV-2 could be another target of rhamnolipids and could find utility in the fight against COVID-19, a future perspective to be considered.…”
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A Real Options Approach to growth opportunities and resilience aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic by Zhi, Wang, Upadhyay, Arvind, Kumar, Anil

“…The modelling and simulations using ROA suggest how strategic portfolios resolve the growing problem during the endemic to all but in the most isolated societies. Findings: We find the emergent correlation between circuit breakers and lockdowns, which have brought about a ‘distorted gravity’ effect (inverse growth of global businesses and trades). …”
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An ontological framework for assisting people with disabilities in organisations by Ulman, Michael

“…The Organisation Agent is able to identify when an action becomes an intention and whether the action is impaired so needing assistance, and if it does need assistance to find the assisting actions from those available, then select the optimal assister and its agent and direct it to the assisted agent. …”
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Poverty, growth, inequality and pro-poor factors: new evidence from macro data by Amini, Chiara, Dal Bianco, Silvia

“…Our main results are in line with the existing literature. First, we find that the poverty elasticities to growth and inequality are, respectively, around -2% and 2%. …”
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Does cognitive biased knowledge influence investor decisions? An empirical investigation using machine learning and artificial neural network by Bihari, Anshita, Dash, Manoranjan, Muduli, Kamalakanta, Kumar, Anil, Mulat-Weldemeskel, Eyob, Luthra, Sunil

“…The goal of this research is to find out how biases in information based on knowledge affect decisions about investments. …”
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