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'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities. Leiden Journal of International Law, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000325

This paper will address an often-neglected agenda of the much-derided League of Nations: its ‘social’ and ‘technical’ works. These targeted human security through regulating different forms of international mobility, including the fight against traff... Read More about 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities.

Thin slice sampling of video footage for mother/child interaction: application to single cases (2012)
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James, D. M., Wadnerkar, M. B., Lam-Cassettari, C., Kang, S., & Telling, A. L. (2012). Thin slice sampling of video footage for mother/child interaction: application to single cases. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 34(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-012-9282-9

The purpose was to test the reliability of short samples of parent/child interaction for use in single-subject research. Four variable pairs of mother/child behaviour were coded for seven mother/child play sessions. Each session lasted 20 min and 18... Read More about Thin slice sampling of video footage for mother/child interaction: application to single cases.

Responsibility for implicit bias (2012)
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Holroyd, J. (2012). Responsibility for implicit bias. Journal of Social Philosophy, 43(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.2012.01565.x

Philosophers who have written about implicit bias have claimed or implied that individuals are not responsible, and therefore not blameworthy, for their implicit biases, and that this is a function of the nature of implicit bias as implicit: below th... Read More about Responsibility for implicit bias.

Creationism as a misconception: socio-cognitive conflict in the teaching of evolution (2012)
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Foster, C. (2012). Creationism as a misconception: socio-cognitive conflict in the teaching of evolution. International Journal of Science Education, 34(14), https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2012.692102

This position paper argues that students' understanding and acceptance of evolution may be supported, rather than hindered, by classroom discussion of creationism. Parallels are drawn between creationism and other scientific misconceptions, both of t... Read More about Creationism as a misconception: socio-cognitive conflict in the teaching of evolution.

Geriatric screening in first opinion practice: results from 45 dogs (2012)
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Davies, M. (2012). Geriatric screening in first opinion practice: results from 45 dogs. Journal of Small Animal Practice, 53(9), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5827.2012.01247.x

Objectives
To evaluate and report the results of screening geriatric dogs in a first opinion practice.
Methods
A prospective health screen of dogs over nine-years-old involving history taking, physical examination and urinalysis.
Results
At leas... Read More about Geriatric screening in first opinion practice: results from 45 dogs.

A two-staged SEM-neural network approach for understanding and predicting the determinants of m-commerce adoption (2012)
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Chong, A. Y. (2013). A two-staged SEM-neural network approach for understanding and predicting the determinants of m-commerce adoption. Expert Systems with Applications, 40(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.08.067

The advancement in wireless and mobile technologies has presented tremendous business opportunity for mobile-commerce (m-commerce). This research aims to examine the factors that influence consumers’ m-commerce adoption intention. Variables such as p... Read More about A two-staged SEM-neural network approach for understanding and predicting the determinants of m-commerce adoption.

The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids” (2012)
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Thompson, G. (2012). The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids”. American Literature, 84(3), https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664701

This essay intervenes in conversations about mid-nineteenth-century authorship and print culture by distinguishing between the economy of paper and the economy of print. He argues that critical treatments of Melville’s work, and particularly “The Par... Read More about The “Plain facts” of fine paper in “The paradise of bachelors and the tartarus of maids”.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Law (2012)
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Bartlett, P. (2012). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Law. Modern Law Review, 75(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00923.x

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD) took effect in 2008. This paper discusses a number of flashpoints where the CRPD will require real and significant reconsideration of English mental health and mental capa... Read More about The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Law.

Local People rebuilding their communities – an exploration of Welsh time banking (2012)
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Gregory, L. (2012). Local People rebuilding their communities – an exploration of Welsh time banking. Contemporary Wales, 25(1), 40-57

Drawing on previous research, this paper explores the development of the 'Welsh' model of time banking: its history, practice and association with co-production. Attention is given to a critical evaluation of this model as regards community and parti... Read More about Local People rebuilding their communities – an exploration of Welsh time banking.

Aroma delivery from spray dried coffee containing pressurised internalised gas (2012)
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Yu, T., MacNaughtan, B., Boyer, M., Linforth, R., Dinsdale, K., & Fisk, I. D. (2012). Aroma delivery from spray dried coffee containing pressurised internalised gas. Food Research International, 49(2), 702-709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2012.08.021

A non-chemical, ingredient free method of enhancing aroma delivery during the preparation of instant coffee is presented. The approach detailed introduces a method for entrapping high pressure internalised gas within the pores of spray dried soluble... Read More about Aroma delivery from spray dried coffee containing pressurised internalised gas.

How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy (2012)
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Dahm, M., Dur, R., & Glazer, A. (2014). How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy. Public Choice, 159(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-012-0016-z

This paper shows why a majority of legislators may vote for a policy that benefits a firm but harms all legislators. The firm may induce legislators to support the policy by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district where voters or th... Read More about How a firm can induce legislators to adopt a bad policy.

Kamin blocking is associated with reduced medial-frontal gyrus activation: implications for prediction error abnormality in schizophrenia (2012)
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Moran, P. M., Rouse, J. L., Cross, B., Corcoran, R., & Schürmann, M. (2012). Kamin blocking is associated with reduced medial-frontal gyrus activation: implications for prediction error abnormality in schizophrenia. PLoS ONE, 7(8), Article e43905. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0043905

The following study used 3-T functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the neural signature of Kamin blocking. Kamin blocking is an associative learning phenomenon seen where prior association of a stimulus (A) with an outcome block... Read More about Kamin blocking is associated with reduced medial-frontal gyrus activation: implications for prediction error abnormality in schizophrenia.

The multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 overcomes signalling activation by survival factors to deplete MCL1 and XIAP and induce cell death in primary acute myeloid leukaemia cells (2012)
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Pallis, M., Abdul-Aziz, A., Burrows, F., Seedhouse, C., Grundy, M., & Russell, N. (2012). The multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 overcomes signalling activation by survival factors to deplete MCL1 and XIAP and induce cell death in primary acute myeloid leukaemia cells. British Journal of Haematology, 159(2), 191-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjh.12018

The novel multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 has selectivity against cell cycle and transcriptional cyclin dependent kinases (CDKs) as well as fms-like tyrosine kinase receptor-3 (FLT3). Inhibition of transcriptional CDKs preferentially depletes short-lived... Read More about The multi-kinase inhibitor TG02 overcomes signalling activation by survival factors to deplete MCL1 and XIAP and induce cell death in primary acute myeloid leukaemia cells.

A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention (2012)
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Bartlett, P. (2012). A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention. International Journal of Human Rights, 16(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.706008

It has long been the case in jurisprudence under the European Convention on Human Rights that mental disorder must be of a certain severity in order to justify detention,
but there has been little meaningful debate as to what that means. The questio... Read More about A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention.

Towards an organizational perspective on party funding: explaining financial transfers from MEPs to their national parties (2012)
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Bolleyer, N., Trumm, S., & Banducci, S. A. (in press). Towards an organizational perspective on party funding: explaining financial transfers from MEPs to their national parties. European Journal of Political Research, 52(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2012.02068.x

Which European Parliament (EP) parties are able to extract regular donations from their MEPs' salaries and if they extract donations how great are they? In the literature on party finances, there has been a lack of attention paid to the use of salari... Read More about Towards an organizational perspective on party funding: explaining financial transfers from MEPs to their national parties.

Neural and Vascular Responses to Fused Binocular Stimuli: A VEP and fNIRS Study (2012)
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Wijeakumar, S., Shahani, U., McCulloch, D. L., & Simpson, W. A. (2012). Neural and Vascular Responses to Fused Binocular Stimuli: A VEP and fNIRS Study. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 53(9), 5881-5889. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.12-10399

Purpose.: The aim of our study was to investigate the correlation between neural and hemodynamic responses to stereoscopic stimuli recorded over visual cortex.

Methods.: Test stimuli consisted of a static checkerboard (checks) and dichoptic stati... Read More about Neural and Vascular Responses to Fused Binocular Stimuli: A VEP and fNIRS Study.

High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context (2012)
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Madan, C. R., Fujiwara, E., Gerson, B. C., & Caplain, J. B. (2012). High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6, Article 61. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00061

Learning through reward is central to adaptive behavior. Indeed, items are remembered better if they are experienced while participants expect a reward, and people can deliberately prioritize memory for high- over low-valued items. Do memory advantag... Read More about High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context.

The diversity of Class II transposable elements in mammalian genomes has arisen from ancestral phylogenetic splits during ancient waves of proliferation through the genome (2012)
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Hellen, E. H., & Brookfield, J. F. (2012). The diversity of Class II transposable elements in mammalian genomes has arisen from ancestral phylogenetic splits during ancient waves of proliferation through the genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mss206

DNA transposons make up three percent of the human genome, roughly the same percentage as genes. However, due to their inactivity, they are often ignored in favour of the more abundant, active, retroelements. Despite this relative ignominy, there are... Read More about The diversity of Class II transposable elements in mammalian genomes has arisen from ancestral phylogenetic splits during ancient waves of proliferation through the genome.