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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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. …”

Performance studies of HEFSM with 6 slot- 7 pole for HEV application by Ibrahim, Ismail Ishaq

“…Hybrid excitation machines (HEMs) that consist of permanent magnet (PM) and field excitation coil (FEC) as their main flux sources has several attractive features compared to interior permanent magnet synchronous machines (IPMSM) conventionally employed in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). …”
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Determination of baseflow quantity by using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and Google Earth by Tajul Baharuddin, Mohamad Faizal, Awang, Zarizi, Yusoff, Nor Azizi, Embong, Zaidi, Lim, Alvin John Meng Siang

“…Baseflow separation methods can be divided into two main groups: non-tracer-based and tracer- based separation methods of hydrology. …”
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Low power CMOS iImage sensor for face recognition by Chan, Kit Heng, Ruslan, Siti Hawa

“…Therefore, CMOS image sensor with its architecture on pixel array, signal processors, row and column selector and timing control [3] will be the main key.…”
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