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Diversity management in practice : A cross-cultural & multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography addressing policy and well-being (2009)
Book

This volume has emerged out of a collaborative Network of Excellence (NoE) research project funded by the European Commission. The NoE is designed to strengthen excellence on ‘Sustainable Development in a Diverse World’ by integrating European resear... Read More about Diversity management in practice : A cross-cultural & multi-disciplinary annotated bibliography addressing policy and well-being.

Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2 (2009)
Journal Article
Rodriguez, J., & Hernandez Perez, M. (2009). Book review : Nancy Frey & Douglas Fisher (eds.) (2008). Teaching visual literacy: Using comic books, graphic novels, anime, cartoons, and more to develop comprehension and thinking skills.Thousand Oaks, California Corwin Press. 195 pages. ISBN 978-1-4129-5311-5, 978-1-4129-5312-2. International Journal of English Studies, 9(2), 171-174

The scum bag (2009)
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Novel for 14+
Self-conscious, studious Julia is bowled over by the arrival of Peter Groves, the Greek God, known to all his friends as Ami. He’s a real catch and Julia seems to be the one reeling him in. With a little bit of help from her scatty,... Read More about The scum bag.

Modeling environmental noise using artificial neural networks (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Genaro, N., Torija Martinez, A., Ramos, A., Requena, I., Ruiz, D., & Zamorano, M. (2009, November). Modeling environmental noise using artificial neural networks. Presented at 2009 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Pisa, Italy

Since 1972, when the World Health Organization
(WHO) classified noise as a pollutant, most industrialized countries
have enacted laws or local regulations that regulate noise
levels. Many scientists have tried to model urban noise, but
the result... Read More about Modeling environmental noise using artificial neural networks.

Global urbanism in the anthroprocene (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hodson, M., & Marvin, S. (2009, November). Global urbanism in the anthroprocene. Presented at Crisis Forum Climate Change and Violence Workshop Series, Leeds

Informality in organization and research : a review and a proposal (2009)
Journal Article
proposal. Construction Management and Economics, 27(10), 913-922. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446190903273950

The growing interest in informal and emergent features of organizations has
accompanied changes both in the dominant forms of organization and prevailing
academic views about how best to think about and research them. It is argued here
that curren... Read More about Informality in organization and research : a review and a proposal.

Wireless technology in the evolution of patient monitoring on general hospital wards (2009)
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Sahandi, R., Noroozi, S., Roushan, G., Heaslip, V., & Liu, Y. (2009). Wireless technology in the evolution of patient monitoring on general hospital wards. Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology, 34(1), 51-63. https://doi.org/10.3109/03091900903336902

The evolution of patient monitoring on general hospital wards is discussed. Patients on general wards are monitored according to the severity of their conditions, which can be subjective at best. A report by the Commission for Healthcare Audit and In... Read More about Wireless technology in the evolution of patient monitoring on general hospital wards.

The man who never was? The Italian transition and 2008 election (2009)
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Newell, J. (2009). The man who never was? The Italian transition and 2008 election. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 14(4), 395-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545710903281862

The implications for the co-called Italian transition of the 2008 election initially seemed significant – but have since become increasingly uncertain as Berlusconi's conflict of interests has risen higher up the political agenda. This underscores th... Read More about The man who never was? The Italian transition and 2008 election.

Visible narratives (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2009, November). Visible narratives. Presented at Typographic Horizons, Birmingham City University

This project is created from digital recordings of the gesture. A Visible Narrative is the unseen path created by the pattern of gesture we make during the moment language. This is a deliberate strategy to place the focus of the viewer on images crea... Read More about Visible narratives.

O processo de projeto em empreendimentos gerenciados por benefícios, Design process in projects driven by benefits (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Tillmann, P., Sapountzis, S., Tzortzopoulos, P., & Formoso, C. (2009, November). O processo de projeto em empreendimentos gerenciados por benefícios, Design process in projects driven by benefits. Presented at Simpósio Brasileiro de Qualidade do Projeto no Ambiente Construído, São Carlos, SP, Brasil

O sistema de saúde do Reino Unido tem passado por uma grande transformação, visando a melhoria e inovação do setor. Uma forte característica desta mudança é a descentralização das iniciativas e maior participação de agentes de saúde locais em decisõe... Read More about O processo de projeto em empreendimentos gerenciados por benefícios, Design process in projects driven by benefits.

My social networking profile: copy, resemblance, or simulacrum? A poststructuralist interpretation of social information systems (2009)
Journal Article
Kreps, D. (2010). My social networking profile: copy, resemblance, or simulacrum? A poststructuralist interpretation of social information systems. European Journal of Information Systems, 19(1), 104-115. https://doi.org/10.1057/ejis.2009.46

This paper offers an introduction to poststructuralist interpretivist research in information systems, through a poststructuralist theoretical reading of the phenomenon and experience of social networking websites, such as Facebook. This is undertake... Read More about My social networking profile: copy, resemblance, or simulacrum? A poststructuralist interpretation of social information systems.

Bistable Helmholtz bright solitons in saturable materials (2009)
Journal Article
Christian, J., McDonald, G., & Chamorro-Posada, P. (2009). Bistable Helmholtz bright solitons in saturable materials. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 26(12), 2323-2330. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.26.002323

We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first exact analytical solitons of a nonlinear Helmholtz equation with a saturable refractive-index model. These new two-dimensional spatial solitons have a bistable characteristic in some parameter regim... Read More about Bistable Helmholtz bright solitons in saturable materials.

Spooked (2009)
Book

There’s always something a bit scary about a ghost story. Somehow, though, when you read a collection of them you’re expecting to meet a spook or two. It takes a little more effort to frighten the reader.
We hope we’ve managed to do just that with... Read More about Spooked.

Existence of exocytotic hemifusion intermediates with a lifetime of up to seconds in type II pneumocytes (2009)
Journal Article
Miklavc, P., Albrecht, S., Wittekindt, O., Schullian, P., Haller, T., & Dietl, P. (2009). Existence of exocytotic hemifusion intermediates with a lifetime of up to seconds in type II pneumocytes. Biochemical Journal, 424(1), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.1042/BJ20091094

Exocytosis proceeds through prefusion stages such as hemifusion, but hemifusion is still an elusive intermediate of unknown duration. Using darkfield and fluorescence microscopy in ATII (alveolar type II) cells containing large secretory vesicles (LB... Read More about Existence of exocytotic hemifusion intermediates with a lifetime of up to seconds in type II pneumocytes.