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The Pentapartito (2015)
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The pentapartito was the five-party governing coalition which, aside from two brief interruptions, held governmental office in Italy between June 1981 and April 1991. The parties making up the coalition were: Christian Democracy (DC), the Italian Soc... Read More about The Pentapartito.

From calculator to computer - a critical review of employment tribunals and their impact upon the management of workers (2015)
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The Employment Tribunal Service (ETS) is an alternative to internal workplace dispute resolution, which has facilitated a fluctuating increase in claims since the tribunals were established in 1964. Figures from the ETS annual report (2013) show 191,... Read More about From calculator to computer - a critical review of employment tribunals and their impact upon the management of workers.

Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano (2015)
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Summons and Repulsion: The Curious Appeal of Tony Soprano
In a Los Angeles Times article published in the wake of James Gandolfini’s death, Chris Lee described Tony Soprano, Gandolfini’s most famous incarnation, as ‘a cultural sensation’, ‘one of TV... Read More about Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano.

Autism spectrum disorders in the criminal justice system : police interviewing, the courtroom and the prison environment (2015)
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Allely, C. (2015). Autism spectrum disorders in the criminal justice system : police interviewing, the courtroom and the prison environment. In Recent advances in autism (1-13). SM Group

What does a ‘genuine lesbian’ look like? : intersections of sexuality and ‘race’ in Manchester's Gay Village and in the UK asylum system (2015)
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Held, N. (2015). What does a ‘genuine lesbian’ look like? : intersections of sexuality and ‘race’ in Manchester's Gay Village and in the UK asylum system. In F. Stella, Y. Taylor, T. Reynolds, & A. Rogers (Eds.), Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging : trans-national and intersectional perspectives (131-148). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315752563-15

This chapter explores the ‘racialisation of sexuality’, whilst also acknowledging the intersections of sexuality and gender. The intersections of ‘race’ and sexuality are explored by using material from different projects: ethnographic research condu... Read More about What does a ‘genuine lesbian’ look like? : intersections of sexuality and ‘race’ in Manchester's Gay Village and in the UK asylum system.

Education for competence (2015)
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Gaskell, L., Beaton, S., & Neville, L. (2015). Education for competence. In T. Barton, & D. Allan (Eds.), Advanced Nursing Practice Changing Healthcare in a Changing World. Palgrave

The chapter reviews the strategies developed for teaching and assessment between the University of Salford and designated National Health Service Trusts within the North West required to produce Advanced Practitioners that are fit for purpose and awa... Read More about Education for competence.

Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama (2015)
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The most hideous aspects of Dracula and his vampire brethren are visual ones – pallor, dark hirsute hands, piercing eyes, razor-sharp fangs. The settings, too, in Dracula are integral to creating mood: for example, Harker’s journey into Transylvania... Read More about Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama.

Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading (2015)
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Crespy, C., Heraud, J., & Perry, B. (2015). Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading. In I. Bache, & M. Flinders (Eds.), Multi-level Governance : Essential Readings. Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784716240

The term ‘multi-level governance’ (MLG) has emerged from its origins in EU studies in the early 1990s to become a commonly used description of politics and policy-making in a range of settings. This collection brings together seminal papers covering... Read More about Multi-level governance, regions and science in France : between competition and equality - selected reading.

Setting and measuring objectives in sustainability assessment (2015)
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Hayes, S., & Fischer, T. (2015). Setting and measuring objectives in sustainability assessment. In Handbook of Sustainability Assessment (265-284). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783471379.00020

Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet (2015)
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Bigliazzi, S., & Nigri, L. (2015). Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet. In S. Bigliazzi, & L. Calvi (Eds.), Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life : the Boundaries of Civic Space (171-186). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733104

Romeo and Juliet offers precisely one such highly connoted and open-ended coda. Shakespearean endings are peculiar for making statements, but also for promising statements, thus closing the text while leaving it open to further elucidation. The touri... Read More about Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet.

Mapping Edinburgh (2015)
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Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch (2015)
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Ahmad, S., Augusthus Nelson, L., & Swift, G. (2015). Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch. In Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. ICE Publishing

The ultimate load carrying capactiy of soil-filled masonry arches is significantly higher than that of bare masonry arches. The soil fill has a stabalising effect on the masonry arch, distributing the live load and providing passive resistance to def... Read More about Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch.

Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting (2015)
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All forms of live performance require the establishment of some kind of interplay between the performer and audience. The presentation of a theatrical event requires the making of a ‘contract’ (Verma in Giannachi and Luckhurst 1999: 129) wherein perf... Read More about Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting.

Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature (2015)
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The book explores the significance and dissemination of ‘monstrous anatomies’ in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenme... Read More about Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature.

The importance of soil quality in the safe practice of urban agriculture in Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa (2015)
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Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach (2015)
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Egena, O., & Alani, O. (2015). Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach. In 2015 7th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC) (99-104). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEEC.2015.7332707

The essence of high Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in any network is centred on optimization which can be approached from different perspectives depending on the network operator's target and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) parameter tweaking... Read More about Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach.

Post occupancy evaluation of daylighting and the thermal environment in education building (2015)
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UK’s elderly care and migration regimes (2015)
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Welfare states are nowadays being challenged in numerous ways. Population ageing places new demands on the welfare institutions that cater to the needs of a growing number of older people. After a unified German Empire had been established in 1871, t... Read More about UK’s elderly care and migration regimes.

History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives (2015)
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While scholars have demonstrated how the US comic-book marketplace in the 1980s/1990s laid conditions for certain narrative techniques in superhero comics (Pearson and Uricchio, 91; Putz, 99; Wright, 01), this article shows how subsequent industrial... Read More about History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives.

A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems (2015)
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The International Badminton Federation recently introduced rule changes to make the game faster and more entertaining, by influencing how players score points and win games. We assess the fairness of both systems by applying combinatorics, probabilit... Read More about A mathematical analysis of badminton scoring systems.