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Processes of Compromise in International Development Consultancies - Getting Heard as a Social Scientist
(2020-04-30)This thesis explores the theme of compromise from the perspective of a social scientist working in the technically oriented environment of international development. My involvement is through my employment in a Danish ... -
Processes of culture change in organisations : the contribution of an external facilitator
(University of Hertfordshire, 2005)This thesis explores processes of organisational and culture change as experienced by an external consultant/facilitator. Through a reflexive inquiry into my own experience of how change happens, I have come to challenge ... -
Processes of Improvisation in Change Management from the Perspective of a UK Management Consultant
(2018-07-25)Organisational improvisation is often seen as a way for corporations to be able to cope with emergent strategies (Cunha, et al, 1999) and a way to meet the challenges of modern ways of working which include agility, ... -
Processing English compounds in the first and second language : the influence of the middle morpheme
(2010)Native English speakers tend to exclude regular plural inflection when producing English noun-noun compounds (e.g., rat-eater not rats-eater) while allowing irregular plural inflection within compounds (e.g., mice-eater) ... -
Procs 3rd Int Blended Learning Conference
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Procs of the 4th Int Blended Learning Conference
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A prodrug nanoparticle approach for the oral delivery of a hydrophilic peptide, leucine(5)-enkephalin, to the brain
(2012-06)The oral use of neuropeptides to treat brain disease is currently not possible because of a combination of poor oral absorption, short plasma half-lives and the blood-brain barrier. Here we demonstrate a strategy for ... -
Producing work-ready graduates: the role of the entrepreneurial university
(2011)UK universities are having to come to terms with the double whammy of a 2010 Spending Review that will see budgets reduced from 7.1 pound billion to 4.2 pound billion by 2014, and the Browne Review of higher education ... -
Producing ‘Top Tips’ for care home staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in England: rapid reviews inform evidence-based practice but reveal major gaps
(2020-10-22)This paper analyses learning from the first three months of the COVID-19 crisis in the UK. It takes the example of a project that responded to questions and concerns raised by front-line care staff by producing research-based ... -
Product Service Systems : From Theory to Practice
(2013)This paper summarises the findings of the scoping phase of a pilot project, Exploring and developing ways to help people increase the useful life of products, through a leasing rather than ownership model of consumption. ... -
Product specialisation, global competition, and industrial decline: Portugal’s path to crisis
(2023-10-31)A widely held view in economics and comparative capitalism states that the crisis in the eurozone was a crisis of labour cost competitiveness. This view maintains that a divergence in unit labour costs engendered a cleavage ... -
Production and evaluation of dry alginate-chitosan microcapsules as an enteric delivery vehicle for probiotic bacteria
(2011-07-11)This study investigates the production of alginate microcapsules, which have been coated with the polysaccharide chitosan, and evaluates some of their properties with the intention of improving the gastrointestinal viability ... -
Production and pathogenicity to wheat of Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides conidia
(1984)Weekly estimates of numbers of Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides conidia on naturally infected wheat straw, made from February to July 1982, showed there were most conidia (8.1 × 106 per straw) in February and least (1.9 ... -
Production benefits recall of novel words with frequent, but not infrequent sound patterns
(2023-01-06)The production effect is influenced by various factors, including cognitive and linguistic related variables. Previous studies found that the production effect varies when stimuli have native versus non-native speech sounds, ... -
The production of academic research and some barriers to academicization in the creative and performing arts
(International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2011)The creative and performing arts have recently entered the university system in many European countries. They bring with them expectations of forms of practice and understandings that are nontraditional. These practices ... -
Production of copper-matrix composites by in situ processing
(1995-12-15)Reaction synthesis routes were studied as a means of production of copper-matrix composites. Routes for providing fine and uniform dispersions of TiC, TiB and WC in a copper-rich matrix were identified. The reasons for ... -
Production of heavy-elements in inhomogeneous cosmologies
(1994-07-10)Baryon density inhomogeneities during big bang nucleosynthesis can result from a variety of possible causes (e.g., quantum chromodynamic and electroweak phase transitions; cosmic strings). We present here the consequences ... -
Production of intermediate-mass and heavy nuclei
(Elsevier, 2007)Nucleosynthesis is the science related to all astrophysical processes which are responsible for the abundances of the elements and their isotopes in the universe. The astrophysical sites are the big bang and stellar objects. ...