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Gender differences in rural and urban practice location among mid-level health care providers (2007)
Journal Article
Lindsay, S. (2007). Gender differences in rural and urban practice location among mid-level health care providers. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0361.2006.00070.x

Context: Mid-level providers comprise an increasing proportion of the health care workforce and play a key role in providing health services in rural and underserved areas. Although women comprise the majority of mid-level providers, they are less li... Read More about Gender differences in rural and urban practice location among mid-level health care providers.

Is there a European political science and if so what are the challenges facing it? (2007)
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Bull, M. (2007). Is there a European political science and if so what are the challenges facing it?. European Political Science, 6(4), 427-438. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210172

This article reviews Hans-Dieter Klingemann's volume, The State of Political Science in Western Europe, and uses the review to explore to what extent it can be argued that there exists a distinctively 'European' political science, and if so, what mig... Read More about Is there a European political science and if so what are the challenges facing it?.

The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms (2007)
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Rowlett, P. (2007). The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms. Transactions of the Philological Society, 105(3), 339-364. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2007.00197.x

This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time. A theme which emerges is the notion that the spec(ifier)–head relationship i... Read More about The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms.

Cinque's functional verbs in French (2007)
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Rowlett, P. (2007). Cinque's functional verbs in French. Language Sciences, 29(6), 755-786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2007.07.010

This article focuses on the syntax of a number of subcategories of verb in French which are compatible with a following bare infinitive and which express various kinds of grammatical tense, mood, modality, aspect and voice, as well as such (more lex... Read More about Cinque's functional verbs in French.

Introducing masculinity studies to information systems research: the case of gaydar (2007)
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Light, B. (2007). Introducing masculinity studies to information systems research: the case of gaydar. European Journal of Information Systems, 16(5), 658-665. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000709

I believe that studies of men's gendered experiences of information systems are needed. In order to support this claim, I introduce the area of Masculinity Studies to Information Systems research and, using this, present an exploratory analysis of an... Read More about Introducing masculinity studies to information systems research: the case of gaydar.

Four for Trane : jazz and the disembodied voice (2007)
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Whyton, T. (2007). Four for Trane : jazz and the disembodied voice. Jazz Perspectives, 1(2), 115-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/17494060701611759

This article comments on the paradoxical nature of new art and its relationship to technology, and discusses the impact of iconic recordings on contemporary performance habits. Using four examples of iconic media associated with John Coltrane, I cons... Read More about Four for Trane : jazz and the disembodied voice.

Pivotal powers : the British Labour Party and European unity since 1945 (2007)
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Callaghan, J. (2007). Pivotal powers : the British Labour Party and European unity since 1945. Capital and Class, 31(3), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680709300112

This article examines the roots of European unity and Britain's relationship to it, primarily in terms of foreign policy and the failed alternative political economy of the empire/Commonwealth. Continuity of policy emerges as the dominant theme. The... Read More about Pivotal powers : the British Labour Party and European unity since 1945.

Introduction - Italy : a contested polity (2007)
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Bull, M., & Rhodes, M. (2007). Introduction - Italy : a contested polity. West European Politics, 30(4), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380701500207

Ten years after the last special issue of West European Politics dedicated to Italian politics, it is possible to extend and refine the framework used in that issue to document and explain the trajectory of change in Italian politics since the early... Read More about Introduction - Italy : a contested polity.

REdGENERATION: art, enterprise, local knowledge and the curriculum (2007)
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Haywood, P., & Ingleson, S. (2007). REdGENERATION: art, enterprise, local knowledge and the curriculum. International Journal of the Arts in Society, 2(5), 99-108

The theme of this paper is engagement in art as a stimulant to enterprise education with young people. Reflecting on their experiences of initiating and managing the case study outlined, the paper describes a process of arts intervention in a school... Read More about REdGENERATION: art, enterprise, local knowledge and the curriculum.

A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy (2007)
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Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2007). A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy. West European Politics, 30(4), 670-691. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402380701500223

Of all the issues that have been regarded as necessary to stabilising Italian politics following the dramatic upheaval of the 1990s, none has been more important than constitutional and institutional reforms. Yet, there has been an unqualified failur... Read More about A long quest in vain : institutional reforms in Italy.

In the frame : investigating the use of mobile phone photography in museums (2007)
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Leighton, D. (2007). In the frame : investigating the use of mobile phone photography in museums. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, 12, 308-319. https://doi.org/10.1002/nvsm.320

The ubiquitous use of mobile phone technology to capture photographic images has rapidly become an accepted feature of our social and cultural lifestyle. From the capture of photographic images in a social setting to the evening news reports of the... Read More about In the frame : investigating the use of mobile phone photography in museums.

Strategic planning as region building on the eastern periphery of the EU (2007)
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Smith, S. (2007). Strategic planning as region building on the eastern periphery of the EU. European Planning Studies, 15(8), 1007-1025. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654310701448154

This article describes how region-building is performed by four strategic planning initiatives in north-eastern Slovakia, highlighting a tension between balanced and concentrated development perspectives in Slovak regional policy. The plans are read... Read More about Strategic planning as region building on the eastern periphery of the EU.

Negotiating conflict: Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī and the translation of the 'other' in nineteenth-century Egypt (2007)
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Salama-Carr, M. (2007). Negotiating conflict: Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī and the translation of the 'other' in nineteenth-century Egypt. Social Semiotics, 17(2), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330701311496

This paper analyses the role of the translator in the representation of alterity and the construction of national identity, with reference to the work of a nineteenth-century Egyptian translator, essayist and educationalist, Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī (180... Read More about Negotiating conflict: Rif'a Rfi' al-TahTwī and the translation of the 'other' in nineteenth-century Egypt.

Heart of gold: Fact and mysticism in documentary form (2007)
Journal Article
Knudsen, E. (2007). Heart of gold: Fact and mysticism in documentary form. Journal of Media Practice, 8(1), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1386/jmpr.8.1.49_1

This report seeks to summarise the process and outcomes of a practice based research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and undertaken during the academic year 2005/2006. The primary outcome of the project is the film Heart of... Read More about Heart of gold: Fact and mysticism in documentary form.

Critical and curious learning: new science, neoclassicism, and new criticism in the Long Restoration (2007)
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Bergstrom, C. (2007). Critical and curious learning: new science, neoclassicism, and new criticism in the Long Restoration. Prose Studies, 29(1), 86-103. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350701201464

During the Long Restoration a new type of literary criticism emerged out of an intellectual milieu in which both neoclassicism and the new science were becoming dominant discourses. Both were profoundly influential in this development because of thei... Read More about Critical and curious learning: new science, neoclassicism, and new criticism in the Long Restoration.

Excellence: a new keyword for education? (2007)
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Allan, K. (2007). Excellence: a new keyword for education?. Critical Quarterly, 49(1), 54-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.2007.00749.x

Excellence is a term that stands out in modern educational discourse, and one that has attracted ridicule from some education commentators. In his critical commentary on how the notion of a university has changed, Bill Readings claims that excellence... Read More about Excellence: a new keyword for education?.

Unionist party competition and the Orange Order vote in Northern Ireland (2007)
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Evans, J., & Tonge, J. (2007). Unionist party competition and the Orange Order vote in Northern Ireland. Electoral Studies, 26(1), 156-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2006.01.006

The period since the signing of Northern Ireland's ‘peace deal’, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA), has seen a shift in the votes of many Protestants to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), hitherto seen as a hardline, anti-GFA organisation fusing... Read More about Unionist party competition and the Orange Order vote in Northern Ireland.