'Spaces to speak' of sour milk : exploring African-Caribbean-British women's activism and agency on childhood sexual abuse from the 1980s to the present day by Wilson, Joanne

“…The thesis presents findings from 5 in-depth interviews with Black British feminists (Experts); a partial content analysis of British feminist periodicals from 1980s onward; 7 in-depth interviews with African-Caribbean British victim-survivors of CSA and a survey examining Black, Asian and Minority, Ethnic service provision (BAME) in 13 Rape Crisis Centre’s in England and Scotland.…”
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Market exposure and the labour process: the contradictory dynamics in managing subcontracted services work by Grimshaw, Damian, Cartwright, Jo, Keizer, Arjan, Rubery, Jill

“…This article extends existing sociological theory by analysing the market-making and rule-breaking roles of client and subcontractor firms through qualitative data. It finds that client organisations construct different types and temporalities of marketised cost pressures, that clients and subcontractors exploit their power advantage over labour to evade institutional rules, and that labour process and reputational concerns impose a degree of moderation towards socially desirable outcomes. …”
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Learning Objects To Enhance Students’ Conceptual Understanding Of Probability by Gossett, Roger, Haynes, Richard

“…This paper reports the quantitative findings from the development and evaluation of a series of learning objects (LOs) the design of which was based upon the results of a previously reported pilot study (Gossett, 2003). …”
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Helping you helps me: giving and receiving social support in recovery groups for problem gamblers by Hutchison, Paul, Cox, Sharon, Frings, Dan

“…Recovery group identification was associated with increased abstinence self-efficacy and decreased perceived risk in gambling-related ‘trigger’ situations and these relationships were mediated by the perceived provision of social support but not its receipt. The findings suggest that mutual aid fellowships such as GA may be effective in part because they provide opportunities for members to not only receive social support from similar others but also to make a meaningful contribution to other people’s recovery through the provision of social support, which can aid their own recovery.…”
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Behavioural microanalysis of dopamine autoreceptor function by Muscat, Richard

“…The Implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the hypothesis that antidepressant drugs increase DA function by reducing the sensitivity of presynaptic DA receptors.…”
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Female domestic violence counsellors/psychotherapists: attitudes towards addiction. An interpretative phenomenological analysis by Fricker, Nina, Banbury, Samantha, Visick, Amanda

“…It further provided insight into how supported and involved they felt in their workplace when counselling this group. These findings are discussed in terms of strategy development and training aimed at improving the experience of counsellors/psychotherapists working in DV counselling organisations when they encounter SUDs in order to support counsellors and service-users well-being.…”
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Twenty-nine years of the BIR annual survey, part 2: changing information work by Tredinnick, Luke

“…The paper aims to summarise and consolidate longitudinal trends revealed by the survey, act as a guide to the rich data contained within the surveys themselves, and provide a testament to the wealth of professional experience captured in the BIR Annual Surveys. Its findings relate to the changes in the nature of professional practice and the pressures on professional practice over the past thirty years.…”
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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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With whom do young Europeans' discuss their political identities? by Ross, Alistair

“…Based on 324 group discussions with 2000 young people, in 104 locations in 29 different European states, the findings suggest that many young people see parents as the people with whom they most often talk about politics. …”
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Europarties in the neighbourhood: how transnational party politics bind Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans to the EU by Chryssogelos, Angelos

“…Empirically, the article investigates the activities of the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) in Georgia and North Macedonia, demonstrating how Europarties can act as amplifiers of EU influence in Eastern Europe and Western Balkans, but also how their partisan interests often come into tension with EU priorities. The findings carry implications for the theory and practice of EU relations with its neighbourhood at a time when prospects for further enlargement appear significantly weakened.…”
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Deceptive counterfeit risk in global supply chains by Ghadge, Abhijeet, Duck, Andrew, Er, Merve, Caldwell, Nigel

“…An online survey was used to collect data from 140 procurement professionals targeted at a national purchasing body and affiliated UK purchasing groups. The study findings show that counterfeit breaches are increasing, especially in low-cost spare parts, sourced from tier-two suppliers based in developing countries. …”
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The use of peer assessment as an inclusive learning strategy in higher education institutions by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…Students received training in PA and were then involved in reciprocal anonymous PA. Findings indicated that learners improved their writing skills considerably and became more independent learners. …”

An IPA study of transgenerational trauma in the third generation of holocaust survivors by Sherman, Antonia

“…Method: Semi-structured interviews of six participants were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Findings: Through analysis three superordinate themes emerged; Holocaust at the core of identity; Salience of family influences within life; internal conflict over sense of purpose: burden vs honour. …”
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Health visitors' lived experiences supporting women with perinatal mental health problems by Duku, Elizabeth Modupe, Lusher, Joanne, Banbury, Samantha

“…Clusters of themes emerged from the study findings and included health visitors' perceived role in supporting perinatal mental health problems and current practice in managing perinatal mental health. …”

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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Schemas and psychological distress in skin disease: a preliminary investigation into the role of schemas in UK patients with psoriasis and eczema by Mizara, Alexandra

“…Results suggest that the combined group of dermatology outpatients can be differentiated in terms of schemas and those beliefs are predictive of their symptoms of anxiety and depression. These findings have a clear relevance to the theoretical underpinning of psychological impact in skin disorders and to counselling practice. …”
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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.…”

An improve unsupervised discretization using optimization algorithms for classification problems by Mohamed, Rozlini, Samsudin, Noor Azah

“…According to the experimental findings, the suggested EB has a major effect on the accuracy, recall, and F-measure of data classification. …”
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Numerical Solution for Arbitrary Domain of Fractional Integro-differential Equation via the General Shifted Genocchi Polynomials by Loh, Jian Rong, Phang, Chang, Isah, Abdulnasir

“…This general shifted Genocchi polynomials can overcome the conventional formula of finding the Genocchi coefficients of a function fðxÞ that involves f ðn−1Þ ðxÞ which may not be defined at x = 0, 1. …”
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Numerical Solution for Arbitrary Domain of Fractional Integro-differential Equation via the General Shifted Genocchi Polynomials by Loh, Jian Rong, Phang, Chang, Isah, Abdulnasir

“…This general shifted Genocchi polynomials can overcome the conventional formula of finding the Genocchi coefficients of a function fðxÞ that involves f ðn−1Þ ðxÞ which may not be defined at x = 0, 1. …”
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