Border crossings, moving borders: young people’s constructions of identities in Lithuania in the early 21st century by Ross, Alistair, Zuzevičiūtė, Vaiva

“…The border of the European Union has moved between its inception in 1956 and its most recent expansion in 2004, and further border movements are planned in coming years. The aim of this paper is to present small-scale qualitative investigation into how young people – aged between 11 and 18 - are constructing their identities and becoming aware of their actual or potential European identity. …”
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Tourism and its relationship to community development in Chamarel, Mauritius by Prang, Davina

“…This is achieved through the analysis of Government reports and development plans. The range of sources used enables a very rich, multi-perspectival account of community tourism through ‘native eyes.’ …”
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Beyond ‘The War on Terror’: Prospects for the Middle East and North Africa by Joffé, George

“…Indeed, I even wonder if such a dispensation is possible or conceivable in the intellectual and policy planning environment that has been created since September 11, 2001, if not long before. …”
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"A ritual civil execution": public shaming meetings in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by Stephenson, Svetlana

“…Public shaming was applied to a wide range of behaviours, including ideological and moral deviations such as public drunkenness, marital infidelity by party members, planned emigration to Israel, etc. The paper applies a theoretical framework that builds on Durkheimian and neo-Durkheimian approaches to ritual, Garfinkel’s outline of the theory of public degradation ceremonies, and Zizek’s account of split law. …”
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Explaining the factors influencing consumer perception, adoption readiness, and perceived usefulness toward digital transactions: online retailing experience of millennials in Indi... by Joshi, Sudhanshu, Sharma, Manu, Bisht, Priya, Singh, Sumanjeet

A review of the benefits 3D printing brings to patients with neurological diseases by Gander, Christine, Shi, Kejing, Nokhodchi, Ali, Lam, Matthew

“…The article goes into detail about how 3DP technology can aid delicate neurosurgical planning and its consequent outcome for patients. It also covers areas such as how the 3DP model can be utilized in patient counseling along with designing specific implants involved in cranioplasty and customization of a specialized instrument such as 3DP optogenetic probes. …”
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Investigating fine-tuning of large language models for text summarisation by Khaliq, Usama, Patel, Preeti

“…Deploying and fine-tuning these models is computationally expensive, requiring careful planning and optimisation. Overall, this project provided insights into transformer fine-tuning, capabilities and limitations that can guide future work to adapt these powerful models for real-world applications.…”
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Empirical assessment of trade potentials of Pakistan with SAARC countries using revealed comparative advantage by Siddiqi, Masood Mashkoor, Khan, Aurangzeb, Khan, Ameerzaib, Khan, Shahbano

“…Trade plays an important role to boost economic growth and strengthens relationship among trading partners. …”
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The potentials of ICT infrastructure in a developing economy : the case of small businesses in Kurdistan Region, Iraq by Tar, Usman A., Lawrence, Japhet Eke

“…There are concerns that instead of providing a level playing field, ICTs are further reproducing and entrenching underdevelopment in certain developing economies. …”
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Social work education in Europe: a retrospective view by Lyons, Karen

“…The Introduction of European Funding in the 1980s played an important part in the establishment of networks contributing to the learning opportunities of social work students in the latter part of the 20th century and more recently. …”
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Parents’ autistic personality traits and sex-biased family ratio determine the amount of technical toy choice by Lange-Kuettner, Christiane, Korte, Messiah Aissa, Stamouli, Christina

“…In a computerized forced-choice shopping task, adults selected from cuddly and social role-playing toys (social toys), academic, music and sports toys (educational toys) and construction sets as well as cars (technical toys). …”
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SOTER: a playbook for cyber security incident management by Onwubiko, Cyril, Ouazzane, Karim

“…Cyber security incident sharing partnership, formalism for metric and measurements of cyber security incident parameters, and cyber security incident classification and prioritisation schemes are presented, and finally, cyber security incident ‘plays’ and playbook templates are discussed.…”
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Bag of remembrance: a cultural biography of red-white-blue, from Hong Kong to Louis Vuitton by Ling, Wessie

“…This chapter discusses the extent to which a Chinese export has played a part in the realities and identities of varied communities, as well as the re-fashioning of Chinese exports into a fashion commodity. …”
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American television during a television presidency by McNally, Karen

“…As it interrogates a presidency played out through the lens of the TV camera and reviews a medium immersing itself in a compelling and inescapable subject, American Television during a Television Presidency sets out to explore what defines the television of the Trump era as a distinctive time in TV history. …”

Accident and agency: a mixed methods study contrasting luck and interactivity in problem solving by Ross, Wendy, Vallée-Tourangeau, Frédéric

“…However, participants performed significantly worse when shuffling, which suggests luck plays less of a role than has been previously suggested. …”
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'Contemporary performance as TARDIS': dancing through time and relative dimension in space by Turner, Jane

“…I evoke the Tardis as it references science and art, matter and movement, is playful with postmodern potential, and in its transformational nature gifts me an image that resonates my concerns as a dance artist and performance maker. …”
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Futurism: performance and performativity of a movement by Scarso, Jacek Ludwig

“…There is no question that performance played an important role in Futurism. Performance interventions span across the history of this movement (Goldberg, 2011): from the notorious 'serate' instigated by Marinetti, in which the audience would be purposefully scandalised, provoked and offended, to the futurist music concerts that provided an ancestral root for the aesthetics of synthesised sound in contemporary music (Rodney, 1976), not to mention the Russian counterpart of this movement, which embraced, on stage, such wide a field as to encompass theatre, opera, dance, music and scenic design. …”
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The evaluation of mental health buildings by Matthews, Rowan

“…The programme was set up by the author to evaluate these developments in ways which would produce information of value in future planning and design of mental health facilities, and detailed recommendations are offered. …”
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'Into the Blue Depths' — Glass Mysticism in Yvegeny Zamyatin's 'We' by Jones, Luke

“…This paper explores two key elements of Zamyatin’s glass city — the prismatic geometric blocks of the city itself, and the encircling ‘green wall’ that surrounds it — considering glass rationalism and mysticism, and their relationship to utopian planning as a process of metaphysical ordering.…”
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Power, influence and impact of Senedd committees - developing a framework for measuring committees’ effectiveness by Stirbu, Diana

“…The report finds a great deal of good practice in committees' work (i.e. improved strategic planning capacity, a focus on follow-up and 'keeping at things' in terms of scrutiny and oversight of government, a drive to embed lived experience of people in evidence, a commitment to work transparently and to engage widely with stakeholders and the Welsh public). …”
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