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Prioritising agri-environment options for greenhouse gas mitigation
(2017-01-06)Purpose – This paper assesses agri-environment scheme options on cultivated agricultural land in England for their impact on agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. It considers both absolute emissions reduction, and reduction ... -
Prioritising refactoring using code bad smells
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-01-01)We investigated the relationship between six of Fowler et al.'s Code Bad Smells (Duplicated Code, Data Clumps, Switch Statements, Speculative Generality, Message Chains, and Middle Man) and software faults. In this paper ... -
Prioritising the student voice : A co-participatory and artful inquiry methodology to capture under-represented students’ experiences
(2015-03-15)This research explores the experiences of socioeconomically under-represented undergraduate students at a post-1992 English university. It addresses inequalities in outcomes and experience for these students, which is ... -
Prioritising Visibility Influencing Factors in Supply Chains for Resilience
(2023-01-13)Supply chain resilience is essential, especially in helping supply chains prepare, react, and grow from supply chain disruptions. Competencies required to generate supply chain performance through resilience include, amongst ... -
Priority research questions for the UK food system
(2013-10)The rise of food security up international political, societal and academic agendas has led to increasing interest in novel means of improving primary food production and reducing waste. There are however, also many ... -
The Prisoner & Albertus
(Rockport, 2011)I Heart Design is a collection of “favorite” designs as selected by 80 prominent graphic designers, typographers, teachers, scholars, writers and design impresarios. Designers have preferences, like modern over postmodern, ... -
Privacy and Usability of Image and Text Based Challenge Questions Authentication in Online Examination
(IEEE COMPUTER SOC, 2014-09)In many online examinations, physical invigilation is often replaced with traditional authentication approaches for student identification. Secure and usable authentication approaches are important for high stake online ... -
Privacy Protection Performance of De-identified Face Images with and without Background
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-05-31)This paper presents an approach to blending a de-identified face region with its original background, for the purpose of completing the process of face de-identification. The re-identification risk of the de-identified ... -
The Private Equity Business Model : On terra firma or shifting sands?
(2012-02-12)This paper reveals how the financial crisis undermined the performance of Private Equity Partnerships (PEPs). The private equity business model depends upon leveraged finance coupled with corporate transformation from ... -
Private pension funds in emerging economies : from broken promises to financialisation
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Privatisation and Poverty Reduction
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Privatisation for Poverty Reduction : The case of Bangladesh
(University of Hertfordshire, 2003)The shift in the last two decades from a state-led to a market oriented development strategy in most of the developing countries under the directions of the World Bank and the IMF has had its repercussions on policy making ... -
Privatisation for poverty reduction?
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Privatisation of state-owned enterprises in Spain: redefining the political economy
(2001)Spain was at the forefront of a worldwide wave of privatisation in the 1990s. The process was driven by a mixture of pragmatism, belief in its economic benefits and a desire to be at the heart of Europe. It was lubricated ... -
Pro-inflammatory cytokines and lipopolysaccharide synergize to induce L-arginine transport and iNOS activity in vascular smooth muscle cells
(1995)The interactions between proinflammatory cytokines and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on L-arginine transporter and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) activities were examined in rat cultured aortic smooth muscle ... -
Probabilistic galactic dynamics I - the Sun and GJ 710 with Monte Carlo, linearised and unscented treatments
(2018-12-07)Deterministic galactic dynamics is impossible due to the space-time randomness caused by gravitational waves. Instead of treating stellar orbits deterministically, we integrate not only the mean but also the covariance of ...