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Potential value of the ethnic pound in England and Wales (2006)
Journal Article
Sirkeci, I. (2006). Potential value of the ethnic pound in England and Wales. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.917328

Increasingly more European markets are becoming multicultural as Europe accommodates increasingly sizeable ethnic minorities. England and Wales are such examples with large ethnic minorities arguably offering valuable marketing opportunities. This pa... Read More about Potential value of the ethnic pound in England and Wales.

Preconditioned multiwavelet Galerkin boundary element solution of Laplace's equation (2006)
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Amini, S., & Nixon, S. (2006). Preconditioned multiwavelet Galerkin boundary element solution of Laplace's equation. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 30(7), 523-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2006.02.003

In this paper, we study the boundary element solution of Laplace's equation using a Galerkin method with multiwavelet basis functions. This leads to significant matrix compression, requiring computation of only θ(n log n). We also develop a block dia... Read More about Preconditioned multiwavelet Galerkin boundary element solution of Laplace's equation.

The Construction Sector and Economic Development: The 'Bon Curve' (2006)
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Ruddock, L., & Lopes, J. (2006). The Construction Sector and Economic Development: The 'Bon Curve'. Construction Management and Economics, 24(7), 717-723. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190500435218

The complexities of the relationship between a country's level of construction activity and its stage of economic development are considerable. Studies over the last three decades, based on macroeconomic analysis, have attempted to model the relation... Read More about The Construction Sector and Economic Development: The 'Bon Curve'.

Project finance and the private finance initiative (PFI) (2006)
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Akbiyikli, R., Eaton, D., & Turner, A. (2006). Project finance and the private finance initiative (PFI). ˜The œjournal of structured finance, 12(2), 67-75

Private Finance is one method of financing large-scale, capital intensive projects, in which traditionally only the cash flows generated by the project serve as the source of loan repayment and only the project assets serve as collateral for a non-re... Read More about Project finance and the private finance initiative (PFI).

Community-based Facilities Management. (2006)
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Alexander, K., & Brown, M. (2006). Community-based Facilities Management. Facilities, 24(7/8), 250-268. https://doi.org/10.1108/02632770610666116

Purpose – To introduce and define the concept of community-based facilities management (CbFM) and to identify and discuss processes and responsibilities in practice, in order to explore opportunities for the development of a socially inclusive approa... Read More about Community-based Facilities Management..

Cities, Knowledge and Universities: Transformations in the Image of the Intangible (2006)
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May, T., & Perry, B. (2006). Cities, Knowledge and Universities: Transformations in the Image of the Intangible. Social Epistemology, 20(3-4), 259-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691720600847290

The current higher educational landscape in the UK is marked by complex sets of expectations, accompanied by efforts to encourage universities into diversifying and stratifying functions. Yet the picture is far from clear and a number of tensions and... Read More about Cities, Knowledge and Universities: Transformations in the Image of the Intangible.

The Sangatte work-visa holders: a 'natural experiment' in immigration policy (2006)
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Jordan, B., & Brown, P. (2006). The Sangatte work-visa holders: a 'natural experiment' in immigration policy. Parliamentary Affairs, 59(3), 509-521. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsl016

In view of the prominence of immigration issues in the 2005 general election, research evidence on policy initiatives is at a premium. This article argues that, despite claims of evidenced-based principles, the Home Office has been selective in its i... Read More about The Sangatte work-visa holders: a 'natural experiment' in immigration policy.

Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection (2006)
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Light, B., & Howcroft, D. (2006). Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection. Information Systems Journal, 16(3), 215-235. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2575.2006.00216.x

The adoption of packaged software is becoming increasingly common in a variety of organizations and much of the packaged software literature presents this as a straightforward, linear process based on rationalistic evaluation. This paper applies the... Read More about Reflections on issues of power in packaged software selection.

Paving the way to the vision of digital construction: a strategic roadmap (2006)
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Rezgui, Y., & Zarli, A. (2006). Paving the way to the vision of digital construction: a strategic roadmap. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 132(7), 767-776. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%290733-9364%282006%29132%3A7%28767%29

The paper provides a synthesis of the construction industry needs and requirements in relation to the adoption and use of information and communication technologies ICT. This is based, on the one hand, on existing research and technology development... Read More about Paving the way to the vision of digital construction: a strategic roadmap.

A haptic-enabled multimodal interface for the planning of hip arthroplasty (2006)
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Tsagarakis, N., Gray, J., Caldwell, D., Zannoni, C., Petrone, M., Testi, D., & Viceconti, M. (2006). A haptic-enabled multimodal interface for the planning of hip arthroplasty. IEEE MultiMedia, 13(3), 40-48. https://doi.org/10.1109/MMUL.2006.55

Multimodal environments help fuse a diverse range of sensory modalities, which is particularly important when integrating the complex data involved in surgical preoperative planning. The authors apply a multimodal interface for preoperative planning... Read More about A haptic-enabled multimodal interface for the planning of hip arthroplasty.

Joint motion control of a powered lower limb orthosis for rehabilitation (2006)
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Costa, N., Bezdicek, M., Brown, M., Gray, J., Caldwell, D., & Hutchins, S. (2006). Joint motion control of a powered lower limb orthosis for rehabilitation. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 3(3), 271-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-006-0271-x

Many patients with spinal injures are confined to wheelchairs, leading to a sedentary lifestyle with secondary pathologies and increased dependence on a carer. Increasing evidence has shown that locomotor training reduces the incidence of these secon... Read More about Joint motion control of a powered lower limb orthosis for rehabilitation.

Issues of computer-mediated communication for English language teaching (2006)
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Jarvis, H. (2006). Issues of computer-mediated communication for English language teaching. British Journal of Educational Technology, 37(4), 643-645. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2006.00592.x

The growth of the English language, fuelled partially at least by the Internet, has been phenomenal. Graddol's study (2000) suggests that in the year 2000, there were about a billion English learners—but a decade later, the numbers will have doubled.... Read More about Issues of computer-mediated communication for English language teaching.

Application of natural language to information systems (NLDB04) (2006)
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Meziane, F., & Métais, E. (2006). Application of natural language to information systems (NLDB04). Data and Knowledge Engineering, 58(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2005.05.005

The International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems is nearing its 10th birthday and has gained in maturity and in the quality of the papers submitted. In the early years, the conference was mainly concerned with th... Read More about Application of natural language to information systems (NLDB04).

A content analysis of physiotherapy for postural control in people with stroke: An observational study (2006)
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with stroke: An observational study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 28(13-14), 865-872. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638280500535090

Purpose. The lack of information about the content of therapy packages is a frequent criticism in stroke rehabilitation
research. This study aimed to describe, in detail, the content of one aspect of physiotherapy; the rehabilitation of postural
co... Read More about A content analysis of physiotherapy for postural control in people with stroke: An observational study.

Professionalism, prejudice and personal taste: does it matter what we wear? (2006)
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Davys, D., Pope, K., & Taylor, J. (2006). Professionalism, prejudice and personal taste: does it matter what we wear?. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 69(7), 339 -341

An earlier opinion piece considered the professional issues surrounding the occupational therapist’s dress code within the work place (Davys et al, 2006). This second paper considers the role of the occupational therapist when a client choice of clo... Read More about Professionalism, prejudice and personal taste: does it matter what we wear?.

Cation exchange in the synthetic gismondine-zeolite MAP (2006)
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Dyer, A., Heywood, B., & Szyrokyj, N. (2006). Cation exchange in the synthetic gismondine-zeolite MAP. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 92(1-3), 161-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2005.12.014

The synthetic gismondine-zeolite MAP is a bulk chemical used as a detergent additive. This work examines the uptake of silver and manganese cations, as relevant to its potential slow-release antifungicidal/bacteriological application.

Silver uptak... Read More about Cation exchange in the synthetic gismondine-zeolite MAP.

Distribution of weakness in the upper and lower limbs post-stroke (2006)
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Tyson, S., Chillala, J., Hanley, M., Selley, A., & Tallis, R. (2006). Distribution of weakness in the upper and lower limbs post-stroke. Disability and Rehabilitation, 28(11), 715-719. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638280500301584

Objective. To assess the distribution of weakness in the upper and lower limbs post-stroke and the factors associated with weakness.
Method. The design was a prospective cross-sectional survey. A consecutive sample of 75 patients (37 (49%) men,... Read More about Distribution of weakness in the upper and lower limbs post-stroke.

Climatic variation and runoff in mountain basins with differing proportions of glacier cover (2006)
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Collins, D. (2006). Climatic variation and runoff in mountain basins with differing proportions of glacier cover. Water Policy, 37(4-5), 315-326. https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2006.017

Records of discharge from partially-glacierised basins in the upper Rhône catchment, Switzerland, were examined together with air temperature and precipitation data in order to assess impacts of climatic fluctuation and percentage glacierisation of b... Read More about Climatic variation and runoff in mountain basins with differing proportions of glacier cover.

Regional differences in response of flow in glacier-fed Himalayan rivers to climatic warming (2006)
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Rees, H., & Collins, D. (2006). Regional differences in response of flow in glacier-fed Himalayan rivers to climatic warming. Hydrological Processes, 20(10), 2157-2169. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6209

River flow from glacierized areas in the Himalaya is influenced both by intra-annual variations in precipitation and energy availability, and by longer term changes in storage of water as glacier ice. High specific discharge from ice melt often domin... Read More about Regional differences in response of flow in glacier-fed Himalayan rivers to climatic warming.