Dealing, music and youth violence: neighbourhood relational change, isolation and youth criminality by Alexander, James

“…The study considers the emergence of drill music, county lines and the lowering of the threshold of when weapons are used to explore the isolated social environments so many young people find themselves in. The book tracks how authorities have transitioned from an enforcement led to a public health approachh to tacking violence. …”
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Enhancing relationship marketing using social media tools in food and beverages industries by Kormin, Kamisah

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Intelligent diagnostic feedback for online multiple-choice questions by Guo, Ruisheng, Palmer-Brown, Dominic, Lee, S. W., Cai, Fang Fang

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The association between trauma, offending behaviour, self harm and substance use with dissociation and absorption in male prisoners by Lad, Sunil

“…Much research has been conducted investigating the link between dissociation, fantasy proneness, and PTSD. …”
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Membrane vesicles of clostridioides difficile and other clostridial species by Goh, Shan, Inal, Jameel

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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Euro area by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Onorante, Luca, Paesani, Paolo

“…It also appears that the direction of causality has been reversed, and that in the euro period the Friedman-Ball link is empirically supported, implying that the ECB can achieve lower inflation uncertainty by lowering the inflation rate.…”
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Electronic cigarette users lack intention to quit vaping by Skerry, Alex, Lusher, Joanne, Banbury, Samantha

“…This study aims to determine whether users intend to quit or reduce vaping. An online survey link was posted on social media forums and 259 self-confessed vapers completed an online questionnaire. …”
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The research in Scotland event in Edinburgh: reflections and key issues by Terry, Cassandra, French, Fiona, Morrison, Neil

“…Several important points were raised: the requirement for better awareness and better support for those living with Parkinson’s (including specialist care) and the need to invest in research and work together including the importance of Patient and Public Involvement to find better treatments and, hopefully, a cure.…”
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Costantini, Mauro, Paradiso, Antonio

“…We estimate a Vector Error Correction (VEC) model including the saving rate, asset prices, equity withdrawal and interest rates and find that indeed mortgage equity withdrawal is a key determinant of the observed saving pattern.…”
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Competitiveness of credit associations and credit cooperatives in Japan by Matousek, Roman, Minegishi, Shinya, Stewart, Chris

“…The results correspond to research findings by Tsutsui and Kamesaka (2005), and Uchida and Tsutsui (2005). …”
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Fiscal shocks and real exchange rate dynamics: some evidence for Latin America by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Ciferri, Davide, Girardi, Alessandro

“…Using quarterly data over the period 1980-2006, we find that in a majority of cases fiscal shocks are the main driving force of real exchange rate fluctuations.…”
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Ageing and personal retirement savings plan participation with heterogeneity in preferences : the Portuguese case by Barros, Carlos Pestana, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Garcia, Maria Teresa Medeiros

“…A mixed logit model is used to analyse the determinants of retirement saving behaviour, allowing for heterogeneity in the responses. We find considerable heterogeneity among individuals (in terms of socio-economic variables such as age, gender and income), which must be taken into account by any policy aimed at changing retirement saving behaviour.…”
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Identification of segments of European banks with a latent class frontier model by Barros, Carlos Pestana, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Gil-Alana, Luis A.

“…A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically significant segments in the sample. …”
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Opinion on the compatibility of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) with the European Convention on Human Rights & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights by Korff, Douwe, Brown, Ian

“…It follows a request to find out “if the final Version of ACTA and its foreseen legislative procedure is in line with the Treaties of the European Union and which legal possibilities there are for the European Parliament to challenge this in front of the European Court of Justice.” …”
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Rain profile characterization and rain effect analysis of land mobile satellite based on measurement in Malaysia by Abo Zeed, Mohammad Ibrahiem

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Public libraries, social class and social justice by Pateman, John

“…In this paper I will examine the link between inequality, social class and the use of public libraries. …”
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Global attraction and repulsion of a heteroclinic limit cycle in three dimensional Kolmogorov maps by Hou, Zhanyuan

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Cybersecurity-based blockchain for cyber-physical systems: challenges and applications by Maleh, Yassine, Mounir, Soufyane, Ouazzane, Karim

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Making of intimate capitalism: from cultrural economy to creative and cultural industries by Nayak, Bhabani Shankar

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The problem of the public good and the implications for researching educational policies for social justice by Ross, Alistair

“…We identified different types of potential injustices, and the subsequent chapters examined various of these in turn, in a range of educational contexts, through the prisms of research directed towards finding policy initiatives that might counter the effects of particular inequities. …”
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