Production of fine alumina from waste aluminum can by Wan Mohd, Wan Roslina, Purwanto, Hadi

“…The results showed that the process was mainly controlled by temperature and concentration. …”
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Particle swarm optimization of air-launch vehicle and trajectory by Aldheeb, M, Kafafy, Raed, Idres, Moumen, Omar, H.

“…The optimization is conducted in three main steps. First, a mission analysis of ALV is performed using the required Delta-V predicted by trajectory optimization. …”
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Modelling the reality in planning: SPDSS experiences in Malaysia by Abdullah, Alias, Abdullah, Muhammad Faris, Muhammad Nur Azraei, Shahabudin, Richard E, Klosterman

“…The public planning agencies have been the main player in exploring SPDSS application in real-life project, while the academics are more content towards investigating potential new areas for SPDSS application in Malaysian planning. …”
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Political science: a primer by Islam, Syed Serajul, Moten, Abdul Rashid

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Psychological stresses among divorced professional women by Chan, Samuel Hsin Chlen

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Who are the dissidents? : analysing changes in the sociological profile of violent dissident republicans in Northern Ireland by Taylor, Francis

“…The charges result from involvement in the four main dissident groups currently active in armed struggle in Ireland namely Continuity IRA (CIRA), Real IRA (RIRA), Oglaigh Na h’Eireann (ONH) and most recently the New IRA (NIRA). …”
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Two-level architecture for rule-based business process management by Ezekiel, Kanana, Vassilev, Vassil, Ouazzane, Karim

“…One of the main challenges in Business Process Management (BPM) systems is the need to adapt business rules in real time. …”
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Faith-based organisations, development and the World Bank by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Focusing on the activities of the World Bank in the 1995-2005 period, when, under the leadership of President James Wolfensohn and Katherine Marshall, then Head of the Bank’s development Dialogue on Values and Ethics (DDVE), the institution engaged with some selected FBOs, this chapter enquires into the reasons for the Bank’s interest in faith as well as its sudden disappearance. It argues that the main rationale for engagement with faith lay in the disappointing results of previous secular strategies and the feeling that religion had a positive role to play in fighting poverty. …”
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Health and development in the Maltese Islands by Mintoff, Yana

“…The relations and forces of production are the main determinants of public health. The relative power of the oppressed and the contemporary means of production affect both the type and spread of disease. …”
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Genetics of severe obesity by Fairbrother, Una, Kidd, Elliot, Malagamuwa, Tanya, Walley, Andrew

“…Purpose of review: This review aims to present current information on genes underlying severe obesity, with the main emphasis on the three genes LEP, LEPR and MC4R. …”
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Finding and funding voices: the London experience by Lewis, Peter M.

“…This article argues the importance of community media, and particularly community radio, in providing such communities with opportunities to express their cultures and concerns. Its main focus is London, whose size and geography pose special problems for broadcast coverage, but comparisons are made with other European capital cities – Budapest, Cardiff and Stockholm - and the historical legacy of London’s problems, which has defeated other attempts in the past to use radio to meet the needs of London communities, is briefly summarised. …”
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The equilibrium real exchange rate of Vietnam : determinants and misalignments by Nguyen, Anh Ngoc, Sarantis, Nicholas

“…We use monthly data for the period 1995-2005 to construct a unique data base of effective exchange rates, effective terms of trade and effective productivity against Vietnam’s main trade partners. A detailed review of Vietnam’s exchange rate policy is also provided. …”
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Diyanet as a Turkish foreign policy tool: evidence from the Netherlands and Bulgaria by Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi, Sozeri, Semiha

“…Thus, the article advances two main claims; first, Diyanet serves as a primary foreign policy tool of Turkey in countries with a significant Turkish-Muslim minority. …”
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A comparative study of the accounting research trends (1994-2014) between Spain and Italy by Patuelli, Alessia, Carungu, Jonida

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How do counselling psychologists talk about doing therapy with working class clients in an IAPT setting?: a Foucauldian discourse analysis by Gallo, Delia

“…The interviews were analysed using Foucauldian discourse analysis, which takes into account structural hierarchies beyond the text. Findings: Three main discourses emerged from the data: ‘class is seen and heard, but not talked or thought about’, ‘intrusion of poverty’ and ‘mind the gap’. …”
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An ontological approach to model software quality assurance knowledge domain by Bajnaid, Nada O.

“…International standards (SWEBOK, IEEE, and ISO) were the main sources of the terminology and semantic relations of the developed SQA conceptual model. …”
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The politics of the rope: the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969 by Twitchell, Neville

“…It examines the role of the main political parties and their internal conflicts, both structurally between front bench, backbench and grassroots membership, and ideologically between pro and anti-hangers and examines the way in which the configuration of opinion within the parties affected the controversy. …”
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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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