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Gaussian and non-Gaussian models for financial bubbles via econophysics (2011)
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Fry, J. (2011). Gaussian and non-Gaussian models for financial bubbles via econophysics. Hyperion International Journal of Econophysics and New Economy, 4(1), 7-22

We develop a rational expectations model of financial bubbles and study how the risk-return interplay is incorporated into prices. We retain the interpretation of the leading Johansen-Ledoit-Sornette model: namely, that the price must raise prior to... Read More about Gaussian and non-Gaussian models for financial bubbles via econophysics.

Brain gain (drain), immigration and global network: Nepalese students in the UK (2011)
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Bhattarai, K. (2011). Brain gain (drain), immigration and global network: Nepalese students in the UK. International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies, 4(4), 345-365. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEPEE.2011.043309

Nepalese students in UK are struggling to balance tuition and other expenses in the short-run and for the gainful employment in the long run. The opportunity cost of emigration in a labour surplus economy of Nepal is very little in comparison to bene... Read More about Brain gain (drain), immigration and global network: Nepalese students in the UK.

Estudos sobre a dimensionalidade da empatia: tradução e adaptação do Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) (2011)
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Rodrigues Sampaio, L., Rocha Bagano Guimarães, P., Pereira dos Santos Camino, C., Soares Formiga, N., & Gomes Menezes, I. (2011). Estudos sobre a dimensionalidade da empatia: tradução e adaptação do Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Psico, 42(1), 67-76

RESUMO Ao longo dos anos diversos métodos foram propostos para avaliar a empatia, sendo que os mais utilizados são escalas autoavaliativas. Dentre estas, destaca-se o Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) de Davis (1983), que avalia componentes cognit... Read More about Estudos sobre a dimensionalidade da empatia: tradução e adaptação do Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI).

Comprometimento organizacional atitudinal: um estudo empírico sobre a dimensionalidade do construto (2011)
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Menezes, I. G., & Bastos, A. V. B. (2011). Comprometimento organizacional atitudinal: um estudo empírico sobre a dimensionalidade do construto. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), 28(4), 463-474. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0103-166x2011000400007

A falta de precisão acerca da dimensionalidade do comprometimento organizacional contribui para torná-lo um construtocomplexo e multifacetado. Com o objetivo de identificar a melhor estrutura fatorial para o comprometiment... Read More about Comprometimento organizacional atitudinal: um estudo empírico sobre a dimensionalidade do construto.

Um estudo sobre a validade de construto da Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) em uma amostra populacional urbana do Nordeste Brasileiro (2011)
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Bonfim, C., Santos, D., Menezes, I., Reichenheim, M., & Barreto, M. (2011). Um estudo sobre a validade de construto da Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) em uma amostra populacional urbana do Nordeste Brasileiro. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 27(11), 2215-2226

A Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) tem sido um dos instrumentos mais utilizados internacionalmente para investigação da violência doméstica contra a criança, porém o uso segmentado de suas escalas tem se mostrado inadequado devido à comple... Read More about Um estudo sobre a validade de construto da Parent-Child Conflict Tactics Scale (CTSPC) em uma amostra populacional urbana do Nordeste Brasileiro.

God moete ons ziere hulpen jonnen! : approaching the Middle Dutch «Van den vos Reynaerde» through the Old French Roman de Renart (2011)
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Tudor, A. (2011). God moete ons ziere hulpen jonnen! : approaching the Middle Dutch «Van den vos Reynaerde» through the Old French Roman de Renart. Queeste. Tijdschrift over middeleeuwse letterkunde in de Nederlanden, 18(1), 18-31

The remit for this essay was intriguing. To read and react to the Middle Dutch masterpiece Van den Vos Reynaerde with no expectation of prior knowledge, linguistic competence or further research: simply to read the splendid new English prose translat... Read More about God moete ons ziere hulpen jonnen! : approaching the Middle Dutch «Van den vos Reynaerde» through the Old French Roman de Renart.

"What governs life": Švankmajer's Faust in Prague (2011)
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Drábek, P., & North, D. (2011). "What governs life": Švankmajer's Faust in Prague. Shakespeare bulletin, 29(4), 525-542. https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2011.0065

An article on Jan Švankmajer's 1994 film Lekce Faust with a contextual introduction to Švankmajer's films, contemporary Czech politics and society, Elizabethan drama and the tradition of Czech marionette theatre.

Fatal Choices and Flawed Decisions at the End of Life: Lessons from Israel (2011)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2011). Fatal Choices and Flawed Decisions at the End of Life: Lessons from Israel. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 54(4), 578-594. https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2011.0037

This article presents a recent disconcerting event that took place at a rehabilitative nursing home in Tel Aviv in light of Israel's Dying Patient Law, which came into effect in 2005. It probes the double effect doctrine as it is relevant to the case... Read More about Fatal Choices and Flawed Decisions at the End of Life: Lessons from Israel.

International Regulation of Fisheries Management in Arctic Waters (2011)
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Barnes, R. (2011). International Regulation of Fisheries Management in Arctic Waters. Jahrbuch fur internationales Recht. German yearbook of international law, 54, 193-230

Climate change has opened up the possibility of new fisheries in Arctic waters. There are governance gaps in existing international and regional instruments as they apply to Arctic waters. Existing regimes might be adapted or a new Arctic RFMO create... Read More about International Regulation of Fisheries Management in Arctic Waters.

From the 'governance of security' to 'governance failure' : refining the criminological agenda (2011)
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Yar, M. (2011). From the 'governance of security' to 'governance failure' : refining the criminological agenda. Internet journal of criminology, 2011(April), 1-19

Over the past three decades, an on-going debate has developed around the ways and extent to which the hierarchical, state-led provision of security and policing has been displaced by a move toward a polycentric, network-oriented mode of governance. T... Read More about From the 'governance of security' to 'governance failure' : refining the criminological agenda.

A numerical model for Hodgkin-Huxley neural stimulus reconstruction (2011)
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Kambhampati, C., & Sarangdhar, M. (2011). A numerical model for Hodgkin-Huxley neural stimulus reconstruction. Iaeng International Journal of Computer Science, 38(1), 89--94

The information about a neural activity is encoded in a neural response and usually the underlying stimulus that triggers the activity is unknown. This paper presents a numerical solution to reconstruct stimuli from Hodgkin-Huxley neural responses wh... Read More about A numerical model for Hodgkin-Huxley neural stimulus reconstruction.

Low molecular weight heparin downregulates tissue factor expression and activity by modulating growth factor receptor-mediated induction of nuclear factor-κB (2011)
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Ettelaie, C., Fountain, D., Collier, M. E. W., ElKeeb, A. M., Xiao, Y. P., & Maraveyas, A. (2011). Low molecular weight heparin downregulates tissue factor expression and activity by modulating growth factor receptor-mediated induction of nuclear factor-κB. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA): Molecular Basis of Disease, 1812(12), 1591-1600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2011.09.007

Treatment of cancer patients with low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) appears to have beneficial effects. In this study, the influence of low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) on tissue factor (TF) expression and activity in five cell lines from variou... Read More about Low molecular weight heparin downregulates tissue factor expression and activity by modulating growth factor receptor-mediated induction of nuclear factor-κB.

"When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849 (2011)
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Lawrence, J. (2011). "When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849. Studies in Romanticism, 50(3), 475-503. https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2011.0013

This essay explores the European-wide fascination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the legendary biography of the celebrated sixteenth-century Italian poet, Torquato Tasso. It focuses on English poetic responses to Tasso’s p... Read More about "When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849.

Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina (2011)
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Baker, C. (2011). Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina. Südosteuropa, 59(4), 478-502

The foreign military forces and international organisations that have operated in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 1992 recruited thousands of local people, often young students, to work as interpreters. Drawing on 31 life history interviews conduc... Read More about Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina.

An avatar-based help system for web-portals (2011)
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Lang, H., Mosch, C., Boegel, B., Minker, W., & Benoit, D. M. (2011). An avatar-based help system for web-portals. Lecture notes in computer science, 6762(PART 2), 537-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21605-3_59

In this paper we present an avatar-based help system for web-portals that should provide various kinds of user assistance. Along with helping users on individual elements of a web page, it is also capable to offer step-by-step guidance supporting use... Read More about An avatar-based help system for web-portals.

Multiple phase inversion of emulsions stabilized by in situ surface activation of CaCO3 Nanoparticles via Adsorption of Fatty Acids (2011)
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Cui, Z. -., Cui, C. -., Zhu, Y., & Binks, B. P. (2012). Multiple phase inversion of emulsions stabilized by in situ surface activation of CaCO3 Nanoparticles via Adsorption of Fatty Acids. Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 28(1), 314-320. https://doi.org/10.1021/la204021v

The in situ surface activation of raw CaCO3 nanoparticles by interaction with a series of sodium carboxylates of chain length between 6 and 12 as well as sodium 2-ethylhexylsulfosuccinate (AOT) was studied, and the impact of this on the stabilization... Read More about Multiple phase inversion of emulsions stabilized by in situ surface activation of CaCO3 Nanoparticles via Adsorption of Fatty Acids.