Introduction: European adult education policy in question
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All Outputs (131)
Castles Built on Clouds: Vague Identity and Vague Objects (2014)
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Can identity itself be vague? Can there be vague objects? Does a positive answer to either question entail a positive answer to the other? In this chapter, we answer these questions as follows: no, no, and yes. First, we discuss Evans’s famous 1978 a... Read More about Castles Built on Clouds: Vague Identity and Vague Objects.
Plant resource availability and management in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Greece (2014)
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Plant use in Mycenaean mortuary practice (2014)
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Elizabeth’s Correspondence with the Protestant Princes of the Empire, 1558-1586 (2014)
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Adult learning: from the margins to the mainstream (2014)
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Conclusion (2014)
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Biomimetic Human Lung Models (2014)
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New strategies for the treatment of lung disease are being sought to combat the increased prevalence of lung disease within the developedworld.As researchmoves away from reliance upon the use of animal models in pre-clinical studies innovative method... Read More about Biomimetic Human Lung Models.
Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations (2014)
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The authors have been involved with developing a number of mHealth smartphone Apps for use in health or wellness research in collaboration with researchers, clinicians and patient groups for clinical areas including Sickle Cell Disease, Attention Def... Read More about Developing mHealth Apps with Researchers: Multi-Stakeholder Design Considerations.
Harold Nicolson and Appeasement (2014)
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Harold Nicolson is remembered for many aspects of a remarkably varied life. The son of a Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, he became a successful diplomat himself, with a role in shaping the 1919 Paris peace settlement. He served as fa... Read More about Harold Nicolson and Appeasement.
Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada (2014)
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The writing of literary history opens up a range of questions about territory and boundaries. While recognising the energising role of Quebec nationalism in the emergence and affirmation of Québécois literature in the second half of the Twentieth Cen... Read More about Territories of literary history: the shifting boundaries of Francophone literature in Canada.
Capital structure and the issuance of corporate bonds in emerging Asia (2014)
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In emerging Asia's local-currency bond market, the government bond segments have largely come of age while the corporate bond markets have remained immature. This paper focuses on the question of what drives corporate bond issuance, an issue of great... Read More about Capital structure and the issuance of corporate bonds in emerging Asia.
Interdisciplinary approaches to the Scandinavian heritage of North-West England (2014)
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A wide variety of approaches based on historical, archaeological, place-name, linguistic, physical, and genetic tools can collectively provide a detailed understanding of the Vikings in peace and in war. This chapter and the rest of the book that fol... Read More about Interdisciplinary approaches to the Scandinavian heritage of North-West England.
Viewing Animal Models for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex in the Light of Evolution (2014)
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Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a multisystem disorder usually caused by a mutation in either the TSC1 or TSC2 genes. Approximately 50 % of individuals with TSC develop an autism spectrum disorder. Between 1 and 4 % of autism is attributable to t... Read More about Viewing Animal Models for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex in the Light of Evolution.
Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits (2014)
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How do we measure some thing that is, by its very nature, largely hidden? This is the conundrum that faces all who have attempted to develop a means of measuring corruption. Given the seemingly intractable nature of this problem, the obvious question... Read More about Measuring corruption: Perspectives, critiques and limits.
Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption (2014)
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Corruption is one of the most high-profile issues in the contemporary world. According to the 2011 ‘World Speaks’ surveys, conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC World Service, corruption was the world’s most talked-about problem, ahead of extreme povert... Read More about Introduction: Scale and focus in the study of corruption.
Use of carbon accumulation rates to estimate the duration of coal seams and the influence of atmospheric dust deposition on coal composition (2014)
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Time contained within coal seams is most commonly estimated using a volumetric approach that fails to take into account processes of carbon accumulation and loss during peat formation and coalification. A more appropriate approach for estimating the... Read More about Use of carbon accumulation rates to estimate the duration of coal seams and the influence of atmospheric dust deposition on coal composition.