Improving Finance for UK Small and Medium-Sized Businesses by Jackson,, Gavin

“…The GPI industrial policy programme for 2011/2012 is focused on finding ways to address key restraints to growth faced by industry in the UK. …”
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Development and validation of the work environment complexity scale for leaders by Bezler, Teresa, Moneta, Giovanni B., Pheiffer, Gary

“…Design/methodology/approach – Both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, gathered in the course of major organizational restructuring, using samples from employees (n=305) and leaders (n=120) in two health care organizations. Findings – The research developed and validated a scale of WEC for leaders with two factors: (1) Frequent Change and Events, and (2) Uncertain Work Demands. …”
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Peptidylarginine deiminase inhibitors reduce bacterial membrane vesicle release and sensitize bacteria to antibiotic treatment by Kosgodage, Uchini S., Matewele, Paul, Mastroianni, Giulia, Kraev, Igor, Brotherton, Dominik, Awamaria, Brigitte, Nicholas, Anthony P., Lange, Sigrun, Inal, Jameel

“…Importantly, this resulted in enhanced antibiotic sensitivity of both E. coli and S. aureus to a range of antibiotics tested. Our findings reveal novel strategies for applying pharmacological OMV/MV-inhibition to reduce antibiotic resistance.…”
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Cognitive and emotional influences on eating behaviour: a qualitative perspective by Wehling, Helena, Lusher, Joanne

“…(2) Jekyll and Hyde, and (3) Emotional attachment to food. These findings highlighted a link between dieting and negative thinking, which foster unhealthy eating patterns. …”
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Clay ingestion during pregnancy among black African women in a North London Borough: understanding cultural meanings, integrating indigenous and biomedical knowledge systems by Madziva, Cathrine, Chinouya, Martha J.

“…Findings from this qualitative audit conducted in a North London Borough among Black African women show that clay ingestion during pregnancy is a cultural phenomenon embedded in indigenous knowledge (IK). …”
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The range and shape of thermal comfort and resilience by Nicol, Fergus, Rijal, Hom Bahadur, Imagawa, Hikaru, Thapa, Rita

“…In doing this the paper builds on past findings adding some related lessons derived from surveys from many parts of the world – especially Japan, Pakistan, Nepal and Europe. …”
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Young children retain fast mapped object labels better than shape, color, and texture words by Holland, Amanda, Simpson, Andrew, Riggs, Kevin J.

“…However, after one week only the mappings for object labels were retained above chance levels. Our findings suggest that fast mapped object labels are retained long-term better than color, shape and texture words. …”
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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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Navigating an invisible labyrinth: the effect of involuntary bogus self-employment on female Greek-Cypriot educators’ job satisfaction and subjective well-being by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Implications of the findings are discussed to unveil the gendered challenges that women with caregiving responsibilities still face in the workplace due to insufficient childcare and caregiving support.…”
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Border crossings, moving borders: young people’s constructions of identities in Lithuania in the early 21st century by Ross, Alistair, Zuzevičiūtė, Vaiva

“…This paper focuses on findings from Lithuania. As the borders of the European Union continue to demonstrate their flexibility, even an ambiguity, are there (in the minds of these young people) limits to Europe: where does the frontier lie?…”
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New project development and marketing of Smart City initiatives: an empirical study by Vijaygopal, Rohini, Bennett, Roger, Savani, Sharmila

“…Interview transcripts will be analysed using an argumentative narrative discourse methodology. Findings: To be inserted. Research limitations/implications: The study covers a sample of smart city initiatives in a single country. …”
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Multi-dimensional time and university technology commercialisation as opportunity praxis: a realist synthesis of the accumulated literature by Kalantaridis, Christos, Kuttim, Merle

“…This framework builds on the paradigmatic foundations of critical realism and is used to conduct a realist synthesis of the existing literature. Our findings support an extension of the temporal boundaries of commercialisation towards innovation, placing increasing emphasis on user-entrepreneurs and organisations. …”
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State and faith: the supply-side theory of religion and the case of Turkey by Gurses, Mehmet, Fox, Jonathan, Öztürk, Ahmet Erdi

“…We argue this is because hegemonic religious policies may create crosscutting effects which both increase and decrease religiosity. The findings also have political implications that are undertheorized in the supply-side literature.…”

Circular and digital systems in SMEs: an assessment of the past and present literature for future research directions by Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo

“…The study also goes into the seminal articles in the discipline to have a more in-depth understanding of the pioneering experiments that were conducted. The findings indicate that SMEs are more interested in digital systems than circular systems. …”
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Metaheuristics in circular supply chain intelligent systems: a review of applications journey and forging a path to the future by Detwal, Pankaj Kumar, Agrawal, Rajat, Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Kumar, Anil

“…The methodology involves a meticulous review of 77 meticulously selected research articles published until 2023. The findings of our analysis indicate a significant increase in the number of publications in recent times. …”
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Exploring the use of Virtual Professional and Academic Learning Communities to foster sustainable learning in management education by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Descriptive statistics and thematic analysis were employed to examine the data. Findings indicated that VPALCs can be used to support students, especially BAME in closing the awarding gap, through collaboration, peer mentoring/coaching, networking, and sharing of resources. …”
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Circular economy startups and digital entrepreneurial ecosystems by Roshan, Ravi, Balodi, Krishna, Datta, Sagnika, Kumar, Anil, Upadhyay, Arvind

“…The results reveal that for a high CSU formation, DEE elements, such as digital protection and access, act as critical drivers, while other DEE elements take on a supportive role. The findings also show the complementarity effects, substitution effects, and neutral permutations of DEE elements among the configurations.…”
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Gender sensitisation through course design thinking by De Marco, Marcella

“…The current article – which collects the first findings of an in-progress educational project carried out at London Metropolitan University – suggests examples of activities and aspects to consider in curriculum design to create an effective framework which can ensure a more consistent embedding of gender-sensitive policies in the curriculum of translation courses.…”
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The unexpected politics of ILGA-Europe’s rainbow maps: (de)constructing queer utopias/dystopias by Ammaturo, Francesca Romana, Slootmaeckers, Koen

“…The emphasis on legislative frameworks, thus, in part displaces lived experiences of LGBTQI+ people in Europe – projecting both Queer Utopias and Dystopias onto different geographical localities feeding into existing homonationalist discourses. With such findings, we argue against the fetishization of legislation within LGBTQI+ activism and academia.…”
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Migrant workers in small London hotels: Employment, recruitment and distribution by Markova, Eugenia, Paraskevopoulou, Anna, Williams, Allan, Shaw, Gareth

“…Secondly, it analyses how migrant workers are recruited, and finds less evidence to support the concepts of ethnic queuing and co-ethnic recruitment as opposed to diversified migrant recruitment in the context of the super-diversity of migrant populations in a global city. …”