Between people power and state power: the ambivalence of populism in international relations by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…It argues that the debate over the impact of populism on international relations has been influenced too much and for too long by the importation in IR and FPA of mainstream approaches on populism from comparative politics, and by an overtly West-centric perspective. …”
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Immigrants in the transnational far right: integration through racisms and negotiating white supremacy in a migratory context by Garapich, Michał P., Jochymek, Anna, Soborski, Rafał

“…Despite the historical and contemporary instances of immigrants and their descendants engaging with the far-right, whether through long-distance nationalism or country of residence politics, migration scholarship has surprisingly paid very little attention to this process. …”

Social networks and migration: relocations, relationships and resources by Ryan, Louise

“…Exploring rich, qualitative data, I analyse how migrants forge new ties in new places, while simultaneously negotiating long distance relationships transnationally. Particular attention is given to the field of employment and the role of networks in how migrants have accessed jobs and developed careers across various sectors of the labour market. …”

Enhanced cuttings transportation in deviated and horizontal wells using polypropylene–nanosilica composite by Oseh, Jeffrey Onuoma

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The experience of psoriatic arthritis patients receiving biological treatment : an interpretative phenomenological analysis by Schepelern, Eva K.

“…Analysis of the data highlighted that receiving biologics for psoriatic arthritis was experienced as life-changing, but also required participants to make sense of the many unknowns surrounding treatment in regard to future effectiveness and long-term side effects of biologics. Participants experienced a biomedical focus on disease and treatment effects alone as not taking into account the significant psychological impact that having psoriatic arthritis and being treated with biologics can have on sufferers’ lives. …”
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Compact planar antennas for beam steering and RFID tags by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Naser-Moghadasi, Mohammad, Sadeghzadeh, Ramazan Ali, Virdee, Bal Singh, Limiti, Ernesto

“…Interest in RFID systems operating in the ultrahigh frequency (UHF) is rapidly growing as it offers benefits of long read range and low cost, which make it an excellent system for use in distribution and logistics systems. …”
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Longitudinal Influences of Social Network Characteristics on Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults by Rafnsson, Snorri Bjorn, Shankar, Aparna, Steptoe, Andrew

“…Results: Social network size and network contact frequency were positively and independently associated with future life satisfaction and quality of life after controlling for confounding factors, including demographic characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and long-standing illness. In contrast, social network diversity was not independently related to future subjective well-being. …”
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International capital markets structure, preferences and puzzles: the US-China case by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Donadelli, Michael, Varani, Alessia

“…In this paper, we show that instead a two country-two good model with recursive preferences, international complete markets and correlated long-run innovations can address all five puzzles for a relatively large range of parameter values, specifically in the case of the US and China. …”
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Business cycles, international trade and capital flows : evidence from Latin America by Caporale, Guglielmo Maria, Girardi, Alessandro

“…This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. …”
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Closing the loop: an evaluation of student-led module feedback at one UK Higher Education institution by Tschirhart, Cécile, Pratt-Adams, Simon

“…The SLMFS aimed to enhance the student experience at granular level, in ‘real time’ during 30 week-long teaching modules. The article defines the specificity of the SLMFS within the research context and describes how the theme of ‘student-staff partnership’ runs across the scheme, including during the project management and the evaluation phases. …”
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Legacy, sustainability and Olympism: crafting urban outcomes at London 2012 by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…The conclusion comments on the continuing challenges encountered in maintaining the visibility of sustainability plans while addressing long-term legacy.…”
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The wind of change by Ermolayeva, Nadezhda

“…Zorkin's publication in Rossiyskaya Gazeta appears to be a sudden explosion in the long-brewing conflict between Russia and Western democracies. …”
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Universal basic Income by McDonough, Brian, Bustillos Morales, Jessie

“…The idea of receiving ‘money for nothing’, with no strings attached, has for a long time appeared a crazy or radical proposal. But today, this policy is being put into practice. …”
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Men's experience of infidelity in hetrosexual commited relationships : an interpretative phonomenological analysis by Pieluzek, Aleksandra Anna

“…The study further revealed long-term consequences of infidelity for the injured partners and their future relationships. …”
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Crystal structure of the DNA decamer d(CGCAATTGCG) complexed with the minor groove binding drug netropsin by Nunn, Christine M., Garman, Elspeth, Neidle, Stephen

“…The netropsin molecule fits within a five base pair long minor groove site by bending of the flexible amidinium group at one end of the drug.…”

Children's constructions of work by Hutchings, Merryn

“…The thesis argues that differences in experience between children can account for the differences in their constructions of work, and in particular, draws attention to the extremely limited experience and constructions of work of children in the families of the long-term unemployed.…”
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Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the main drainage of London by Halliday, Stephen

“…It also considers the controversies faced by Bazalgette and the Metropolitan Board of Works during the course of the work, with particular reference to the long and still unresolved debate of how finally to dispose of human waste to the benefit, or at least not to the detriment, of the environment. …”
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The exquisite corporealities of Leibniz: performance as embodied practice of thought and documentary praxis by Spackman, Helen

“…Extending Ernst's and my long-standing engagement with issues of alterity, 'home' and 'belonging', our more widely collaborative activities as LEIBNIZ have developed to specifically address the polemics of grafting personal with communal and political identities and the often problematic relation of such, both to civil and human rights and the wider ecologies of which we are each formed! …”
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Income inequality and wealth concentration as a root cause of the subprime crisis by Goda, Thomas

“…The major contributions of this dissertation are however (i) to provide empirical evidence about the negative impact of investor demand on US long-term bond yields in the pre-crisis period, which gives support to the hypothesis that the increasing global demand for safe assets led to a 'search for yield' by investors; (ii) to present estimates about the specific contribution of high net worth individuals to this negative impact; and (iii) to show that after having helped to cause a yield problem in the major US debt markets, high net worth individuals (via hedge funds) continued to be a major source of the pressure on US banks to resolve this yield problem through the mass production of CDOs.…”
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Real-time cyber analytics data collection framework by Maosa, Herbert, Ouazzane, Karim, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor

“…We present a data collection framework that minimizes the need for long term storage. Events are buffered in memory, up to a configurable threshold, before being streamed in real time using live streaming technologies. …”
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