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Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review (2019)
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© 2019 Author(s). One in four births in the UK is to foreign-born women. In 2016, the figure was 28.2%, the highest figure on record, with maternal and perinatal mortality also disproportionately higher for some immigrant women. Our objective was to... Read More about Experience of and access to maternity care in the UK by immigrant women: a narrative synthesis systematic review.

The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands (2019)
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Topography influences evolutionary and ecological processes by isolating populations and by enhancing habitat diversity. While the effects of large-scale topography on patterns of species richness and endemism are increasingly well documented, the di... Read More about The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands.

Soft Power Determinants in the World and Implications for China: A Quantitative Test of Joseph Nye's Theory on Three Soft Power Resources and of the Positive Peace Agreement (2019)
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Statistical tests are conducted on two explanations of soft power. One is Joseph Nye's argument that political values, foreign policy, and cultural appeals shape soft power, and the other is the positive peace argument which suggests the significant... Read More about Soft Power Determinants in the World and Implications for China: A Quantitative Test of Joseph Nye's Theory on Three Soft Power Resources and of the Positive Peace Agreement.

Conflicting ideologies and the archaeology of Early Medieval Albania (2019)
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Reading marine insurance contracts: determining the scope of cover (2019)
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Marine insurance-exclusions-exceptions-causation-delay-slaves The scope of cover under marine insurance policies is typically delineated by a combination of express insuring clauses that identify risks that are covered and an appreciable number of li... Read More about Reading marine insurance contracts: determining the scope of cover.

Procuring infrastructure for international sporting events: mapping the field for IPACS and beyond (2019)
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This article presents the results of a study of infrastructure procurement for international sporting events. The objective was to map both the institutional frameworks and the procedures and governance mechanisms. We were concerned only with the acq... Read More about Procuring infrastructure for international sporting events: mapping the field for IPACS and beyond.

Jerome J. Pollitt (ed.) The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World (2019)
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Altruistic and Warm-Glow Motivations: Differentiating First Time From Repeat Donors (2019)
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The conversion rate of 1st time donors to their 2nd and 3rd donation is low creating a significant problem to transfusion services. We hypothesise that feelings of warm-glow associated with donating blood, contribute to the differentiation between 1... Read More about Altruistic and Warm-Glow Motivations: Differentiating First Time From Repeat Donors.

Posttraumatic growth as a process and an outcome: Vexing problems and paradoxes seen from the perspective of humanistic psychology (2019)
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The aim of this article is to discuss the concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) from the perspective of humanistic psychology. Research findings in PTG have posed what seem to be challenging theoretical questions. Questions that seem perplexing or pa... Read More about Posttraumatic growth as a process and an outcome: Vexing problems and paradoxes seen from the perspective of humanistic psychology.

'There never was a time when so great a drama was being played out in one generation': John Stuart Mill and the French Revolution of 1848 (2019)
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The events of 1848 in France had a profound effect on John Stuart Mill, marking both an important change, and emphasising an important continuity, in his radical political thought. Mill had always had a strong interest in French politics, and a long-... Read More about 'There never was a time when so great a drama was being played out in one generation': John Stuart Mill and the French Revolution of 1848.

A fully coupled computational framework for fluid pressurised crack evolution in porous media (2019)
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This paper presents a computational framework for modelling hydraulic fracture on the basis of combining continuum porous media and damage theories. By considering the continuum as two separate domains of damaged and intact porous domains, model comp... Read More about A fully coupled computational framework for fluid pressurised crack evolution in porous media.

Laurent inversion (2019)
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We describe a practical and effective method for reconstructing the deformation class of a Fano manifold X from a Laurent polynomial f that corresponds to X under Mirror Symmetry. We explore connections to nef partitions, the smoothing of singular to... Read More about Laurent inversion.

Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries (2019)
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This article adapts Jeremy Ahearne's (2009) conception of explicit and implicit cultural policy for a novel analysis of contemporary diversity policy in the British film and television industries. It demonstrates how distinguishing explicit and impli... Read More about Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries.

Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges (2019)
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Organizations need legitimacy to be able to operate effectively. Consequently, and just like their participants, Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) need to respond when faced with legitimacy challenges from external parties. We build on current the... Read More about Talking the Walk: The Deflation Response to Legitimacy Challenges.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: the Romanesque Capitals of St Kyneburgha's Church, Castor, and the Local Landscape (2019)
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Situated at the heart of an early twelfth-century rural Northamptonshire church-St Kyneburgha's church in Castor-a beautiful set of Romanesque capitals depicts an array of creatures, encompassing both the natural and supernatural worlds. This paper a... Read More about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: the Romanesque Capitals of St Kyneburgha's Church, Castor, and the Local Landscape.

International prison standards and transnational criminal justice (2019)
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Prison standards are an important element of transnational criminal justice. This Article shows how legal standards governing prison conditions emerged at the international and regional levels and considers how, increasingly, these have gained legiti... Read More about International prison standards and transnational criminal justice.

A quantitative analysis of attitudes toward pornography use in secure hospitals: sexual, violent and non-offenders (2019)
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Purpose: To investigate the attitudes of staff members in secure hospitals, and the general population toward pornography use and their decision making regarding access to pornography. Methodology: A between participants design was used whereby 324... Read More about A quantitative analysis of attitudes toward pornography use in secure hospitals: sexual, violent and non-offenders.

The effects of default, transfer, and withdrawal provisions on JOA exits: should I stay or should I go? (2019)
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Default, transfer of interest or rights, and withdrawal are prima facie three distinct clauses in a Joint Operating Agreement (JOA). They serve different purposes and are subject to different conditions. But at the same time, they may all lead to a p... Read More about The effects of default, transfer, and withdrawal provisions on JOA exits: should I stay or should I go?.

“The Brooten Phenomenon”: Moving Women from the Margins in Second-Temple and New Testament Scholarship (2019)
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Although at least half the scholars entering the fields of early Judaism and nascent Christianity may now be women, and although scholarship on ancient women, on biblical and apocryphal female characters, and on the construction of femininity and mas... Read More about “The Brooten Phenomenon”: Moving Women from the Margins in Second-Temple and New Testament Scholarship.

A fresh view on the hard/soft law divide: implications for international insolvency of enterprise groups (2019)
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It is the orthodox belief that treaties and—within the EU—directly applicable regulations represent hard, binding international law, while other international instruments-including model laws-are forms of soft law. In a previous publication 2 I discu... Read More about A fresh view on the hard/soft law divide: implications for international insolvency of enterprise groups.