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Dum (assombrado) complexo de Bartleby: Isto [não] é um livro e eu [não] sou daqui (ou da [im]possibilidade lusófona da Galiza) (2008)
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In 2003 the Galizan writer João Guisan published Isto é um livro. Projecto Dicionário Vivo, conceived as ‘a project of a Project’ which would retain an essential relationship with language and writing but would potentially exceed them, crossing the b... Read More about Dum (assombrado) complexo de Bartleby: Isto [não] é um livro e eu [não] sou daqui (ou da [im]possibilidade lusófona da Galiza).

Licenses and assignments of intellectual property rights under the Rome I Regulation (2008)
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Resettlement and reintegration: single mothers' reflections after homelessness (2008)
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Previous research has identified that most families who become homeless are women with dependent children. Homeless families are reported to have a variety of complex needs however little is known about the experiences of families once they are re-ho... Read More about Resettlement and reintegration: single mothers' reflections after homelessness.

Isotope offsets in marine diatom ?18O over the last 200 ka (2008)
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Previous work has suggested that a species effect may be present in diatom oxygen isotope ratios (δ18Odiatom). While predominantly attributed to be a size related species effect, currently the precise mechanism remains unknown. Here, two size fractio... Read More about Isotope offsets in marine diatom ?18O over the last 200 ka.

Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi (2008)
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This paper explores the ambivalent feelings towards the Government of India produced in one of the government’s own employees. In establishing the Delhi Improvement Trust in the 1930s, Arthur Parke Hume had to battle against governmental cost cutting... Read More about Ambivalent improvements: biography, biopolitics, and colonial Delhi.

A randomised controlled trial of triple antiplatelet therapy (Aspirin, Clopidogrel and Dipyridamole) in the secondary prevention of stroke: safety, tolerability and feasibility (2008)
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Background: Aspirin, dipyridamole and clopidogrel are effective in secondary vascular prevention. Combination therapy with three antiplatelet agents might maximise the benefit of antiplatelet treatment in the secondary prevention of ischaemic stroke.... Read More about A randomised controlled trial of triple antiplatelet therapy (Aspirin, Clopidogrel and Dipyridamole) in the secondary prevention of stroke: safety, tolerability and feasibility.

Free thinking for expressivists (2008)
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This paper replies to Zangwill’s argument that quasi-realists cannot accommodate the conceptual status of claims of moral mind-independence embedded in ordinary moral thought. I argue that this conceptual status is compatible with an ‘internal readin... Read More about Free thinking for expressivists.

Modelling and analysis of planar cell polarity (2008)
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Planar cell polarity (PCP) occurs in the epithelia of many animals and can lead to the alignment of hairs, bristles and feathers; physiologically, it can organise ciliary beating. Here we present two approaches to modelling this phenomenon. The aim i... Read More about Modelling and analysis of planar cell polarity.

The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times (2008)
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The article analyses the 'ordinary' violence of revolutionary politics, particularly acts of gendered and sexual violence that tend to be neglected in the face of the 'extraordinariness' of political terror. Focusing on the extreme left Naxalbari mov... Read More about The grey zone: the 'ordinary' violence of extraordinary times.

Analysis of non-coherent fault trees using ternary decision diagrams (2008)
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Risk and safety assessments performed on potentially hazardous industrial systems commonly utilise Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to forecast the probability of system failure. The type of logic for the top event is usually limited to AND and OR gates whi... Read More about Analysis of non-coherent fault trees using ternary decision diagrams.

An enhanced component connection method for conversion of fault trees to binary decision diagrams (2008)
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Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is widely applied to assess the failure probability of industrial systems. Many computer packages are available which are based on conventional Kinetic Tree Theory methods. When dealing with large (possibly non-coherent) fau... Read More about An enhanced component connection method for conversion of fault trees to binary decision diagrams.

Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror (2008)
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Drawing on Shakespeare, and in particular Hamlet's psychological crisis, this paper examines the relationship between emotions and meaning, a key theme in artistic work, but, it is argued, neglected in social psychology. Hamlet's psychological crisis... Read More about Hamlet’s crisis of meaning, mental wellbeing and meaninglessness in the War on Terror.

The consideration of gender in the process of appointing judges to the European Court of Human Rights (2008)
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Crop classification by a support vector machine with intelligently selected training data for an operational application (2008)
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The accuracy of supervised classification is dependent to a large extent on the training data used. The aim is often to capture a large training set to fully describe the classes spectrally, commonly with the requirements of a conventional statistica... Read More about Crop classification by a support vector machine with intelligently selected training data for an operational application.

Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics (2008)
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High quality, well designed medical devices are necessary to provide safe and effective clinical care for patients as well as to ensure the health and safety of professional and lay device users. Capturing the user requirements of users and incorpor... Read More about Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics.

Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management (2008)
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Public participation in health-service management is an increasingly prominent policy internationally. Frequently, though, academic studies have found it marginalized by health professionals who, keen to retain control over decision-making, undermin... Read More about Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management.

Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period (2008)
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The introduction and dispersal histories of eight common condiments in North-West Europe are explored: celery, dill, coriander, black mustard, fennel, summer savory, caraway and parsley. The presence of these condiments in archaeobotanical reports fr... Read More about Social access and dispersal of condiments in North-West Europe from the Roman to the medieval period.

Predicting long-term outcome after acute ischemic stroke: a simple index works in patients from controlled clinical trials (2008)
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Background and Purpose—An early and reliable prognosis for recovery in stroke patients is important for initiation of individual treatment and for informing patients and relatives. We recently developed and validated models for predicting survival a... Read More about Predicting long-term outcome after acute ischemic stroke: a simple index works in patients from controlled clinical trials.

RoMEO studies 7: creation of a controlled vocabulary to analyse copyright transfer agreements (2008)
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This paper describes the process of creating a controlled vocabulary which can be used to systematically analyse the copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) of journal publishers with regard to self-archiving. The analysis formed the basis of the newly... Read More about RoMEO studies 7: creation of a controlled vocabulary to analyse copyright transfer agreements.

Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy (2008)
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How far is the European Union a vehicle for inclusion and empowerment of a new range of policy actors in education? This article explores the role of actors in policy formation through a case study. It examines European Union attempts since 2000 to d... Read More about Hard measures for soft stuff: citizenship indicators and educational policy under the Lisbon Strategy.