From Macro to Micro-Level Constructions in Course Design and Development in Higher Education: the case of a ‘principled’ framework for a new Masters in Public Health by Musoro, Livingstone

“…This advantage in higher education comes from a long-standing feature of academic life – the ‘freedom’ and ability to design and develop courses. …”
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Erdogan, Burcu, Kuzin, Vladimir

“…As a first step, we use the Stock and Watson (1998) procedure to filter the data in order to extract the long-run component of the series; then, following Phillips and Sul (2007), we estimate the relative transition parameters. …”
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Interest and exchange rate risk and stock returns : a multivariate GARCH-M modelling approach by Beirne, John, Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Spagnolo, Nicola

“…The econometric framework is a four-variate GARCH-in-mean model, which incorporates long-and short-term interest rates in turn. We find in most cases a positive effect of stock market returns on mean returns in each sector; by contrast, interest rates and exchange rates have a significant effect only in a few cases, respectively negative and without a clear sign pattern. …”
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A hybrid Verilog-A and equation-defined subcircuit approach to MOS switched current analog cell modeling and simulation in the transient and large signal ac domains by Brinson, Mike, Jahn, Stefan, Nabijou, Hassan

“…However, with the growing complexity of this type of circuit, transient domain simulation times can become prohibitively long, restricting the size of circuit that can be easily investigated. …”
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Promoting good public governance and environmental support for sustainable economic development by Noja, Gratiela Georgiana, Cristea, Mirela, Sirghi, Nicoleta, Hategan, Camelia-Daniela, D’Anselmi, Paolo

“…Overall, the quality of governance in EU countries requires an additional effort dedicated to leverage good public governance in order to support the long-term economic development.…”
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Land remediation, event spaces and the pursuit of Olympic legacy by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…In particular, it considers ways in which redevelopment of the sizeable spaces prepared for staging the event take their place in broader strategies intended to bring long-term benefits to the host city and society in order to compensate for the costs and inconvenience originally incurred in hosting the Games. …”
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Vestibular receptors contribute to the cortical auditory evoked potentials by Todd, Neil P. M., Paillard, Aurore, Kluk, Karolina, Whittle, Elizabeth, Colebatch, James G.

“…In healthy subjects both auditory mid- and long-latency auditory evoked potentials (AEPs), consisting of Na, Pa, N1 and P2 waves, were observed in the sub-threshold conditions. …”
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Architecture, festival and the city - introduction by Browne, Jemma, Frost, Christian W., Lucas, Ray

“…Whether religious or civic in nature, these events provided tangible expressions of social, cultural, political, and religious cohesion, often reaffirming a particular shared ethos within diverse urban landscapes. Architecture has long served as a key aspect of this process exhibiting continuity in the flux of these representations through the parading of elaborate ceremonial floats, the construction of temporary buildings, the ‘dressing’ of existing urban space, the alternative occupations of the everyday, and the construction of new buildings and spaces which then become a part of the background fabric of the city. …”

Comparison of intelligent approaches for cycle time prediction in injection moulding of a medical device product by Kariminejad, Mandana, Tormey, David, Huq, Saif, Morrison, Jim, McAfee, Marion

“…In this study we investigate the application of DOE for a commercial injection moulded component which suffers from a long cycle time and high shrinkage. The Taguchi method has been used to analyze the effect of four input variables on the two output variables: cycle time and shrinkage. …”
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White feminist stories : locating race in the narratives of British feminism by Jonsson, Terese

“…The thesis argues that white feminist racism haunts the dominant narrative of British feminism – as something which is repeatedly erased or evaded each time it is brought to view – and it calls for white feminist academics and activists to reckon with the long history of racism and imperialism which has been integral to the British feminist project since its inception.…”
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Collaborative and self-directed learning of problem-based learning for Nigerian secondary school chemistry by Abubakar, Abbas Babayi, Arshad, Mohammad Yusof

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Key challenges in social value 2025: responsible stakeholder engagement, robust data management and reliable digitalisation. Identifying nine key challenges from research, theory a... by Mulholland, Cara, Georgiadou, Maria Christina, Fittion, Sarah

“…By acknowledging the interdependence of social value, digital tools, and sustainability goals, the authors advocate for an approach that prioritises inclusivity, transparency, and long-term social benefit. The report is a valuable resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers working to shape a more equitable built environment in the face of rapid digital transformation…”
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From ‘no means no’ to ‘an enthusiastic yes’: changing the discourse on sexual consent through sex and relationships education by Coy, Maddy, Kelly, Liz, Vera-Gray, Fiona, Garner, Maria, Kanyeredzi, Ava

“…Organisations that work with young people as victims/survivors of violence and through school-based primary prevention programmes have long identified sexual consent as an issue which requires specialist attention and intervention. …”

Immunoglobulin G: structure and functional implications of different subclass modifications in initiation and resolution of allergy by Scott-Taylor, Timothy H., Axinia, Stefan-Claudiu, Amin, Sumeya, Pettengell, Ruth

“…The pattern of IgG producing plasma cells in atopic children and the tendency for direct or further class switching to IgE are the principle factors responsible for long-lasting sensitization of mast cells in allergic children. …”
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“Remettons nous-y”: the challenges of online language upskilling by Sadoux, Marion

“…The course (60 hours in total) consists of - 4 days of face to face tuition, 20 hours of online asynchronous learning and 20 hours of online synchronous learning over a five month long period. Its curriculum was based on the up skilling specifications created by CILT.…”
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Monetary policy and banking sector : lessons from Turkey by Akinci, Dervis Ahmet, Matousek, Roman, Radić, Nemanja, Stewart, Chris

“…We also find that both capital and GDP growth have plausible positive and significant long-run effects on bank loan growth, whereas inflation, bank size and, in particular, efficiency do not have a significant equilibrium relationship with loan growth. …”
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Post calibration of channel 1 of NOAA-14 AVHRR: Implications on aerosol optical depth retrieval by Li, Chi, Xue, Yong, Liu, Quanhua, Guang, Jie, Di, Aojie, She, Lu

“…In order to produce long-term aerosol optical depth (AOD) dataset over land from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), AVHRR data quality in terms of radiometric calibration must be maintained. …”
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Remote banking fraud detection framework using sequence learners by Patel, Yogesh, Ouazzane, Karim, Vassilev, Vassil, Li, Jun

“…Based on the proposed framework, we implement Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based Recurrent Neural Network model for detecting fraud in remote banking and evaluate its performance against SVM models. …”
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A novel downlink semi-persistent packet scheduling scheme for VoLTE traffic over heterogeneous wireless networks by Tabany, Myasar R., Guy, Chris G., Sherratt, R. Simon

“…Long-term evolution (LTE) is becoming the first choice of mobile network operators (MNOs) when constructing a wireless network infrastructure because of its high data rate, high throughput, and low latency. …”
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Visually induced motion sickness can be alleviated by pleasant odours by Keshavarz, Behrang, Stelzmann, Daniela, Paillard, Aurore, Hecht, Heiko

“…Sixty-two participants were exposed to a 15-min-long video showing a first-person-view bicycle ride that had successfully induced VIMS in previous studies. …”
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