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Heavy loads: Children's burdens of water carrying in Malawi (2013)
Journal Article
Robson, E., Porter, G., Hampshire, K., & Munthali, A. (2013). Heavy loads: Children's burdens of water carrying in Malawi. Waterlines, 32(1), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.3362/1756-3488.2013.003

This paper documents water carrying by children aged 9-18 years across Malawi in Southern Africa and evaluates impacts on health and school attendance. At 12 urban and rural field sites quantitative data were collected by questionnaire interviews wit... Read More about Heavy loads: Children's burdens of water carrying in Malawi.

Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern africa: The limitations of targeting policies (2013)
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Hajdu, F., Ansell, N., Robson, E., & Van Blerk, L. (2013). Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern africa: The limitations of targeting policies. International Development Planning Review, 35(2), 155-174. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2013.11

This paper is based on a study with rural young people in Malawi and Lesotho, focusing on their possibilities for accessing (self)employment in the face of the various constraints imposed by their poor rural situations. Participatory group exercises,... Read More about Rural young people's opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in globalised southern africa: The limitations of targeting policies.

Ultrafast X-ray imaging and modelling of ultrasonic cavitations in liquid metal (2013)
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Lee, T. L., Khong, J. C., Fezzaa, K., & Mi, J. (2013). Ultrafast X-ray imaging and modelling of ultrasonic cavitations in liquid metal. Materials Science Forum, 765, 190-194. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.765.190

The dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles in liquid metal are captured in-situ for the first time using the ultrafast X-ray phase contrast imaging facility housed at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, in the USA. The experimental obser... Read More about Ultrafast X-ray imaging and modelling of ultrasonic cavitations in liquid metal.

High speed imaging study of the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles at a liquid-solid interface (2013)
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Tan, D., & Mi, J. (2013). High speed imaging study of the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles at a liquid-solid interface. Materials Science Forum, 765, 230-234. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.765.230

High speed imaging, including the ultrafast synchrotron X-ray imaging facility at the beamline 32-ID-B of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), was used to study in-situ (1) the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles inside a water suspension with an acoustic fi... Read More about High speed imaging study of the dynamics of ultrasonic bubbles at a liquid-solid interface.

A democratic dialogue? Parliament and human rights in the United Kingdom (2013)
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Norton, P. (2013). A democratic dialogue? Parliament and human rights in the United Kingdom. Asia Pacific Law Review, 21(2), 141-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/10192557.2013.11788271

© LexisNexis, 2013. The protection of human rights is an inherent feature of a liberaldemocracy, but there is the potential for conflict between the legislature as the representative body of the people and the courts as the interpreters of the laws p... Read More about A democratic dialogue? Parliament and human rights in the United Kingdom.

Individualization of time-motion analysis: A case-cohort example (2013)
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Lovell, R., & Abt, G. (2013). Individualization of time-motion analysis: A case-cohort example. International journal of sports physiology and performance : IJSPP, 8(4), 456-458. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.8.4.456

Purpose: To report the intensity distribution of Premier League soccer players' external loads during match play, according to recognized physiological thresholds. The authors also present a case in which individualized speed thresholds changed the i... Read More about Individualization of time-motion analysis: A case-cohort example.

Use of the xCELLigence system for real-time analysis of changes in cellular motility and adhesion in physiological conditions (2013)
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Scrace, S., O'Neill, E., Hammond, E. M., & Pires, I. M. (2013). Use of the xCELLigence system for real-time analysis of changes in cellular motility and adhesion in physiological conditions. Methods in molecular biology, 1046, 295-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-538-5_17

Investigation of the mechanisms behind the regulation of cellular motility and adhesion is key to understanding metastasis and the biology of tumor spreading. There are many technologies available for these studies, but the majority of them are eithe... Read More about Use of the xCELLigence system for real-time analysis of changes in cellular motility and adhesion in physiological conditions.

Measuring and testing industry effects in strategic management research: an update, assessment, and demonstration (2013)
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Sharp, B. M., Bergh, D. D., & Li, M. (2013). Measuring and testing industry effects in strategic management research: an update, assessment, and demonstration. Organizational Research Methods, 16(1), (43-66). doi:10.1177/1094428112470847. ISSN 1094-4281

The authors examine how strategy scholars have measured and tested industry effects. They report findings from three studies. First, they replicate the Dess, Ireland, and Hitt (1990) article on industry controls in strategic management research using... Read More about Measuring and testing industry effects in strategic management research: an update, assessment, and demonstration.

Evaluation of risk assessment tools for suspected cancer in general practice: a cohort study (2013)
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Hamilton, W., Green, T., Martins, T., Elliott, K., Rubin, G., & Macleod, U. (2013). Evaluation of risk assessment tools for suspected cancer in general practice: a cohort study. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 63(606), 30-36. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp13X660751

Background: Diagnostic delay is deemed to account for an estimated 5000 to 10 000 extra cancer deaths each year in the UK. Many cancer patients do not have symptoms meeting national referral criteria for rapid investigation. Risk assessment tools (RA... Read More about Evaluation of risk assessment tools for suspected cancer in general practice: a cohort study.

Procyclical government spending: a public choice analysis (2013)
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Abbott, A., & Jones, P. (2013). Procyclical government spending: a public choice analysis. Public Choice, 154(3-4), 243-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-011-9816-9

Procyclical government spending occurs when government expenditures increase at a faster rate than income in an economic upturn but fall at a faster rate in a recession. Voracity effects occur when competition for increased spending proves more effec... Read More about Procyclical government spending: a public choice analysis.

The capacity of property rights to accommodate social-ecological resilience (2013)
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Barnes, R. A. (2013). The capacity of property rights to accommodate social-ecological resilience. Ecology and Society, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.5751/es-05292-180106

Here, I consider how social-ecological resilience can be facilitated by the use of property rights. Taking a legal perspective on the use of different forms of property, I consider how property rules can manifest the attributes of flexibility, respon... Read More about The capacity of property rights to accommodate social-ecological resilience.

Improving sustainability : what can education learn from other complex systems? (2013)
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Bottery, M. (2013). Improving sustainability : what can education learn from other complex systems?. Educational research journal, 28(42767), 11444

This article is concerned with the causes of unsustainability in complex systems, and what educators can learn from such a study. It argues that there are a number of similar stressors in many complex systems. The systems chosen to illustrate this ar... Read More about Improving sustainability : what can education learn from other complex systems?.

The forward rate premium puzzle: a case of misspecification? (2013)
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Hall, S. G., Kenjegaliev, A., Swamy, P. A. V. B., & Tavlas, G. S. (2013). The forward rate premium puzzle: a case of misspecification?. Studies in nonlinear dynamics and econometrics / sponsored by the MIT Press and the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, 17(3), 265-279. https://doi.org/10.1515/snde-2013-0009

Empirical studies often report a negative relationship between the difference in the spot exchange rate and the forward premium, violating the forward-rate unbiasedness hypothesis. Using standard regression on a sample of ten exchange rates, we obtai... Read More about The forward rate premium puzzle: a case of misspecification?.

Reducing the time before consulting with symptoms of Lung cancer: a randomised controlled trial in primary care (2013)
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Smith, S., Fielding, S., Murchie, P., Johnston, M., Wyke, S., Powell, R., …Macleod, U. (2013). Reducing the time before consulting with symptoms of Lung cancer: a randomised controlled trial in primary care. The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 63(606), 47-54. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp13x660779

Background Most individuals with lung cancer have symptoms for several months before presenting to their GP. Earlier consulting may improve survival. Aim To evaluate whether a theory-based primary care intervention increased timely consulting of indi... Read More about Reducing the time before consulting with symptoms of Lung cancer: a randomised controlled trial in primary care.

It's All About Sex. The Peculiar Case of Technology and Gender (2013)
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Ornella, A. (2013). It's All About Sex. The Peculiar Case of Technology and Gender. Verifiche : Rivista di scienze umane, 42(1-3), 183-213

Gender and technology might seem unrelated on first sight because technology is often considered a neutral other that does not have anything to do with gender. Yet, taking a closer look at the language we use to talk about technology, at the images w... Read More about It's All About Sex. The Peculiar Case of Technology and Gender.

Tetrads of lines spanning PG(7,2) (2013)
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Shaw, R., Gordon, N., & Havlicek, H. (2013). Tetrads of lines spanning PG(7,2). Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, Simon Stevin, 20(4), 735-752. https://doi.org/10.36045/bbms/1382448192

Our starting point is a very simple one, namely that of a set L₄ of four mutually skew lines in PG(7,2). Under the natural action of the stabilizer group G(L₄)