New project development and marketing of Smart City initiatives: an empirical study by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Design/methodology/approach: Smart city managers are being interviewed and asked to relate stories of how decisions had been reached, who was involved, and the main difficulties experienced. Interview transcripts will be analysed using an argumentative narrative discourse methodology. …”
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Institutional complementarities in business systems and labour markets by Panagiotopoulos, Miltiadis

“…The study will try to demonstrate that a decentralized version of industrial democracy, with works councillors supporting trade unionists, provides for an alternative against the liberal market economies, and it can be a main ingredient in the process of increasing European integration. …”
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Bourdieu, Lacan and field theory: neoliberal doxa in the economic field by Scott, Tim

“…It is suggested that the main purpose of any field is not the generation of new knowledge but the preservation of its doxa, which is protected by a series of self-legitimation strategies. …”
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European integration and political party logos: a ‘visual Europeanization’? by Casiraghi, Matteo C. M., Cusumano, Eugenio, Chryssogelos, Angelos

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Book review : Pastoral power, clerical state: Pentecostalism, gender, and sexuality in Nigeria, by Ebenezer Obadare by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…He makes no claim that what he discovers in relation to the role of religion, explicitly Pentecostalism, in politics and society in Nigeria is applicable elsewhere in Africa, or more generally. One of the book’s main strengths is its well-informed and historically accurate depiction of the "rise" of Pentecostalism in Nigeria, to the extent that this strand of Christianity now dominates not only the Christian landscape but more generally the religio-political one.…”
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Using NHS patient data for research without consent by Brown, Ian, Brown, Lindsey, Korff, Douwe

“…In section II, we describe the main NHS databases used for medical research purposes in England and the transparency of this use, and the general problem of re-identification. …”
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Serendipity in scientific research by Ross, Wendy, Copeland, Samantha, Feinstein, Stuart

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Migrant workers in small London hotels: Employment, recruitment and distribution by Markova, Eugenia, Paraskevopoulou, Anna, Williams, Allan, Shaw, Gareth

“…Focusing on the numerically dominant small hotel sub-sector in a global city, London, the paper first questions whether labour costs or competences are the main drivers of migrant employment, emphasising the difficulties of disentangling the relationships between these. …”

Exploring the processes of change in individual cognitive behavioural therapy for bulimia nervosa from the patients’ perspectives : a grounded theory study by Devantier, Line

“…The processes of de-fusion of the sense of self and therapeutic change in the BN seemed to have an interactional relationship that was central to the experiences of change at all stages of CBT for BN. The main findings are linked to the wider context and the possible implications are discussed. …”
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Adopting new technology is a distant dream? The risks of implementing industry 4.0 in emerging economy SMEs by Tamvada, Jagannadha Pawan, Narula, Sanjiv, Audretsch, David, Puppala, Harish, Kumar, Anil

“…Based on a survey of industry experts and business leaders associated with implementing I4.0 in the dynamically evolving economy of India, this paper identifies and prioritises the critical risks linked with implementing I4.0 in SMEs. Empirical results using the Fuzzy-Analytical Hierarchy Process suggest a hierarchy of risks associated with SMEs' transition to I4.0, with financial and technological risks posing the most significant barriers to I4.0 adoption. …”
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Determinants of online brand communities’ and millennials’ characteristics: a social influence perspective by Ozuem, Wilson, Willis, Michelle, Howell, Kerry, Lancaster, Geoff, Ng, Raye

“…Unlike other competing epistemologies, the authors developed a conceptual framework that links a holistic set of OBCs’ characteristics (brand sentiment, identification with source, affirmative experience, conspicuous effect) to consumers’ perceptions in the fashion sector. …”
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Maghemite filled poly-vinyl alcohol nanofibres for tissue engineering scaffold. by Ngadiman, Nor Hasrul Akhmal

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Polyetherimide/multiwall carbon nanotube mixed matrix hollow fiber membrane for gas separation by Ng, Be Cheer

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Seismic hazard assessment of peninsular Malaysia based on new ground-motion prediction equations for subduction earthquakes by Shoushtari, Abdollah Vaez

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Detection and mapping of small-scale and slow-moving landslides from very high resolution optical satellite data by Eyo, Etim Efiong

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Scaling up of the processes for the production of optimized eurycoma longifolia extracts using dimensional analysis by Mohmad @ Harun, Noor Hafiza

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Applications of flow to work by Moneta, Giovanni B.

“…Intense and recurrent flow at work emerged as the main theme underlying each innovation across the domains of science, art, and business. …”
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Reducing variability, increasing reliability: exploring the psychology of intra- and inter-rater reliability by Aslett, Helen J.

“…However, the reliability of the assessment process should never be assumed. There are two main forms of reliability: intra- and inter- rater reliability. …”
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Aspects of problem-based learning : implications for library collaboration in learning and teaching by Foley, Anne

“…PBL and IL appear, in the main, to make easy bedfellows. It is the evidence for this mutually beneficial relationship, from the point of view of the learner, academic staff, and academic/subject librarian in HE that is examined in this paper.…”
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FOSS as an efficient tool for extraction of MOSFET compact model parameters by Tomaszewski, Daniel, Gluszko, Grzegorz, Brinson, Mike, Kuznetsov, Vadim, Grabinski, Wladek

“…A GNU Octave - based application for device-level compact model evaluation and parameter extraction has been developed. The applications main features are as follows: experimental I-V data importing, generating input data for different circuit simulation programs, running the simulation program to calculate I-V characteristics of the specified models, calculating model misfit and its sensitivity to selected parameter variation, and the comparison of experimental and simulated characteristics. …”
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