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The carnival is not over : cultural resistance in dementia care (2016)
Journal Article
Capstick, A., & Chatwin, J. (2016). The carnival is not over : cultural resistance in dementia care. Pragmatics and Society, 7(2), 169-195. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.7.2.01cap

Within the still-dominant medical discourse on dementia, disorders of language feature prominently among diagnostic criteria. In this view, changes in ability to produce or understand coherent speech are considered to be an inevitable result of neuro... Read More about The carnival is not over : cultural resistance in dementia care.

Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects (2016)
Journal Article
Ophiyandri, T., Amaratunga, D., & Keraminiyage, K. (2016). Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects. International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 7(4), 420-431. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2014-0066

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the advantages and limitations of the implementation of a community-based method in post-disaster housing reconstruction.


Design/methodology/approach


The research was based on multipl... Read More about Advantages and limitations of community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects.

BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model (2016)
Journal Article
Hosseini, M., Banihashemi, S., Chileshe, N., Namzadi, M., Udeaja, C., Rameezdeen, R., & McCuen, T. (2016). BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model. Construction Economics and Building, 16(3), 71-86. https://doi.org/10.5130/AJCEB.v16i3.5159

Despite the envisaged benefits of BIM adoption for SMEs, BIM in SMEs has remained an underrepresented area within the available academic literature. This study proposes and draws upon a framework grounded on innovation diffusion theory (IDT) to provi... Read More about BIM adoption within Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) : an innovation diffusion model.

A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China (2016)
Report
Zhou, L., Udeaja, C., Victoria, M., & Chen, Q. (2016). A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China

Cost and commercial management processes and practices in different parts of the world vary significantly. In the UK and the British Commonwealth these practices are mainly market oriented and matured over several centuries. The effects of globalisa... Read More about A comparative study of construction cost and commercial management services in the UK and China.

Differences between road traffic and leisure noise in urban areas. Developing a model for automatic identification (2016)
Journal Article
Ballesteros Garrido, M., Torija Martinez, A., Fernandez, M., & Ballesteros, J. (2016). Differences between road traffic and leisure noise in urban areas. Developing a model for automatic identification. Acta acustica united with Acustica, 102(1), 35-44. https://doi.org/10.3813/AAA.918922

Leisure and road traffic are two of the major contributors to environmental noise in urban agglomerations. This
environmental problem is particularly important in some cities, where there is a massive circulation of traffic
vehicles and numerous ou... Read More about Differences between road traffic and leisure noise in urban areas. Developing a model for automatic identification.

Politics, personality and surviving the workplace (2016)
Book Chapter
Weinberg, A. (2016). Politics, personality and surviving the workplace. In A. Antoniou, & C. Cooper (Eds.), Coping, personality and the workplace (39-50). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574240-5

How an individual responds to crises and critical incidents at work, both immediately and subsequent to the event, is heavily influenced both by personality characteristics and their use of coping strategies. These can, in turn, be affected by levels... Read More about Politics, personality and surviving the workplace.

Real-time gas lift valve to enhance well performance (2016)
Journal Article
Abdalsadig, M., Nourian, A., Nasr, G., & Babaie, M. (2016). Real-time gas lift valve to enhance well performance. Journal of petroleum engineering & technology (Online), 6(2), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.37591/jopet.v6i2.1898

Optimum production from a gas lift well mainly depends on proper injection gas quantity; injection pressure and depth of injection and gas lift valve performance. The quality of down hole gas lift valves plays a crucial role in achieving maximum effi... Read More about Real-time gas lift valve to enhance well performance.

Well injectivity management during geological carbon sequestration activity (2016)
Journal Article
Beinashor, R., Nourian, A., Nasr, G., & Abbas, A. (2016). Well injectivity management during geological carbon sequestration activity. Journal of petroleum engineering & technology (Online), 6(3), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.37591/jopet.v6i3.1924

It is well known that the saline aquifer formations are considered very reliable candidates for carbon sequestration because of their wide availability and they have good storage capacity. Due to high formation salinity, there a big concern about bor... Read More about Well injectivity management during geological carbon sequestration activity.

Measuring interoceptive awareness in external eaters : a test of Schachter's ‘externality’ theory (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Individuals differ in the extent to which they are responsive to external food cues such as the sight and smell of food. According to Schachter's ‘externality theory’, increased responsiveness to these cues may be the consequence of some individuals... Read More about Measuring interoceptive awareness in external eaters : a test of Schachter's ‘externality’ theory.

Inter-regional migration and intermarriage among Kurds in Turkey (2016)
Journal Article
Sirkeci, I. (2016). Inter-regional migration and intermarriage among Kurds in Turkey. Economics & Sociology (Ternopil), 9(1), https://doi.org/10.14254/2071-789X.2016/9-1/10

This study examines interregional migration and intermarriage of internal migrant Kurds in Turkey using the latest available census data. Unlike many other studies, birth region is used as a proxy of ethnicity due to the apparent language shift amon... Read More about Inter-regional migration and intermarriage among Kurds in Turkey.

Investigating the drivers that determines brand loyalty: a study of the experience-commitment-loyalty construct (2016)
Book Chapter
Maheshwari, V., Lodorfos, G., & Jacobsen, S. (2016). Investigating the drivers that determines brand loyalty: a study of the experience-commitment-loyalty construct. In M. Obal, N. Krey, & C. Bushardt (Eds.), Let's Get Engaged! Crossing the Threshold of Marketing’s Engagement Era: Proceedings of the 2014 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11815-4_221

The marketing field first took an interest in brand loyalty on an academic level through Copeland’s work in 1923 (cited in Kabiraj and Shanmugan 2011, p. 288), with the understanding that brand loyalty existed only at the behavioural level. At this t... Read More about Investigating the drivers that determines brand loyalty: a study of the experience-commitment-loyalty construct.

New records of marine invertebrates from Ascension Island (central Atlantic) (2016)
Journal Article
Brown, J., Downes, K., Mrowicki, R., & Richardson, A. (2016). New records of marine invertebrates from Ascension Island (central Atlantic). Arquipélago - Life and Marine Sciences, 33, 71-79

The sea anemone Telmatactis forskalii, the zoanthid Isaurus tuberculatus, the nemertine Baseodiscus delineatus, the echinoderms Ophiocoma wendtii and Mithrodia clavigera, the
molluscs Colubraria canariensis, Glyphepithema turtoni, Tonna pennata, Tri... Read More about New records of marine invertebrates from Ascension Island (central Atlantic).