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Abbey Steel : Conquering the steel recycling market
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010)This chapter summarizes a case study involving recycled steel trader Abbey Steel Ltd. The company, with the assistance of the University of Hertfordshire Academics enhanced its customer retention by designing and implementing ... -
Abbott, L. & K. Lockwood, K. (2020). Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment. In: Lockwood, K. (Ed). Mothering from the inside: research on motherhood and imprisonment (pp. 49-66). Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
(Emerald Publishing, 2020-09-22)This chapters’ focus is on the challenges faced by, and resilience demonstrated by pregnant women and new mothers in prison. Combining health and criminology research findings offers a unique perspective of women’s accounts ... -
The ABC model revisited
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Aberrant driving behaviours amongst New Zealand truck drivers
(2002-01-01)Research using the driver behaviour questionnaire (DBQ) has found that aberrant driving behaviours can be categorised into: errors, lapses and violations (and aggressive violations, depending on the version of the DBQ ... -
The Ability of the Small Ice Detector (SID-2) to Characterize Cloud Particle and Aerosol Morphologies Obtained during Flights of the FAAM BAe-146 Research Aircraft
(2010)The Small Ice Detector mark 2 (SID-2), which was built by the University of Hertfordshire, has been operated by the Met Office on the Facility for Atmospheric Airborne Research (FAAM) BAe-146 aircraft during a large number ... -
L'Abitare come potrebbe essere
(libria, 2016-06)The chapter introduces the monographic work of the architectural practice C+C04 Studio, analysing their residential projects. -
Abnormal synaptic plasticity and impaired spatial cognition in mice transgenic for exon 1 of the human Huntington's disease mutation
(2000-07-01)Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant progressive and fatal neurodegenerative brain disorder caused by an expanded CAG/polyglutamine repeat in the coding region of the gene. Presymptomatic Huntington's disease ... -
About the Impact Behaviour of Railway Fastening Systems
(Newswood Limited, 2015-07)On the basis of what established by the Product Technical Specifications - Specifiche Tecniche di Prodotto RFI (STP) - regarding the performance requirements that fastening systems between sleepers and rails should meet ... -
About the preliminary design of a self-aligning energy absorber system for railway vehicles
(2013-10-01)A new impact energy absorber for a railway car, which maintains its optimal performances even when an impact with a vertical offset occurs, is described. Starting from the description of the concept design, the present ... -
Absolute Electrical Impedance Tomography (aEIT) Guided Ventilation Therapy in Critical Care Patients : Simulations and Future Trends
(2010)Thoracic electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a noninvasive, radiation-free monitoring technique whose aim is to reconstruct a cross-sectional image of the internal spatial distribution of conductivity from electrical ... -
Absorption of the nerve agent VX (O-ethyl-S-[2(di-isopropylamino)ethyl] methyl phosphonothioate) through pig, human and guinea pig skin in vitro
(2006-12)The physico-chemical properties of VX make the skin the most likely route of absorption into the human body. The development of effective medical countermeasures against such percutaneous threat agents relies on the use ... -
An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities
(2012-06-21)The abundance of heavy elements (metallicity) in the photospheres of stars similar to the Sun provides a 'fossil' record of the chemical composition of the initial protoplanetary disk. Metal-rich stars are much more likely ... -
Abundances in the atmosphere of the metal-rich planet-host star HD 77338
(2014)Abundances of Fe, Si, Ni, Ti, Na, Mg, Cu, Zn, Mn, Cr and Ca in the atmosphere of the K-dwarf HD 77338 are determined and discussed. HD 77338 hosts a hot Uranus-like planet and is currently the most metal-rich single star ... -
ACA [CI] observations of the starburst galaxy NGC 253
(2016-08-01)Context. Carbon monoxide (CO) is widely used as a tracer of the molecular gas in almost all types of environments. However, several shortcomings of CO complicate usaging it as H2 tracer, such as its optical depth effects, ... -
Academies : Diversity, economism and contending forces for change
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)The focus of this chapter is the UK government’s academies programme in England and the contending forces that characterise this key policy aimed at bringing about transformational change in education. First, a brief outline ...