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    • Small Change: Economics and the British coin-tree 

      Houlbrook, Ceri (2015-06-23)
      Throughout the c.2000 year period coins have been circulated in Britain, they have also been ritually employed, most notably as votive deposits. Focusing specifically on the understudied custom of the British coin-tree, ...
    • Small Change? : Emily Post’s Etiquette (1922-2011) 

      Lees-Maffei, Grace (Continuum, 2012-10-04)
      In the contemporary book market, non-fiction genres such as biography and self-help command considerable sales, yet ‘bestseller’ is still a term primarily associated with fiction (the nature of that fiction is explored in ...
    • Small Churches 

      Carta, Silvio (2010)
    • Small farmers and sustainability : Institutional barriers to investment and innovation in the Malaysian palm oil industry in Sabah 

      Martin, Susan; Rieple, Alison; Chang, Jane; Boniface, Bonaventure; Ahmad, Amran (2015-08)
      The Malaysian palm oil industry is well known for the social, environmental and sustainability challenges associated with its rapid growth over the past ten years. Technologies exist to reduce the conflict between national ...
    • Small Galaxies Blowing Big Bubbles 

      Ott, J.; Walter, F.; Brinks, E.; Klein, U. (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2000)
      Some of the lowest-mass dwarf irregular galaxies, such as Leo A, Sag DIG and Cas 1, show a characteristic distribution of their neutral interstellar medium (ISM) as observed in the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen (HI): the ...
    • Small molecule recognition of mephedrone using an anthracene molecular clip 

      Kellett, Kathryn; Broome, J. Hugh; Zloh, Mire; Kirton, Stewart B.; Fergus, Suzanne; Gerhard, Ute; Stair, Jacqueline L.; Wallace, Karl J. (2016-05-16)
      An anthracene molecular probe has been synthesised and shown to target mephedrone, a stimulant drug from the cathinone class of new psychoactive substances (NPS). A protocol has been developed to detect mephedrone via the ...
    • Small scale star formation as revealed by VVVX galactic cluster candidates 

      Borissova, J.; Kurtev, R.; Amarinho, N.; Alonso-Garcia, J.; Alegria, S. Ramirez; Bernal, S.; Medina, N.; Chene, A. -N.; Ivanov, V. D.; Lucas, P. W.; Minniti, D. (2020-10-02)
      We report a search and analysis of obscured cluster candidates in the "VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended (VVVX)" ESO Public Survey area encompassing the region between 229.4 < l <295.2 and -4.3 < b <4.4 of the ...
    • Small-scale variations in the radiating surface of the GRB 011211 jet 

      Jakobsson, P.; Hjorth, J.; Ramirez-Ruiz, E.; Kouveliotou, C.; Pedersen, K.; Fynbo, J.; Gorosabel, J.; Watson, D.; Jensen, B.L.; Hansen, M.W.; Michelsen, R.; Andersen, M.I.; Weidinger, M.; Pedersen, H.; Grav, T. (2004)
    • Smart Blade Flutter Alleviation 

      Moosavi, Reza (2023-12-30)
      In this paper, the effect of using a piezoelectric material has been shown on postponing the flutter phenomenon on a regular blade. System response of a smart blade with only flap-wise and edgewise plunge DOF shows that ...
    • Smart Blade Flutter Alleviation with Rotational Effect 

      Moosavi, Mohammadreza (2022-10-19)
      The effect of using a piezoelectric material has been shown on postponing the flutter phenomenon on a regular blade with rotational effects in this paper. The system response of a smart blade with only flapwise and edgewise ...
    • Smart Contracts Software Metrics: a First Study 

      Tonelli, Roberto; Destefanis, Giuseppe; Marchesi, Michele; Ortu, Marco (arXiv, 2018-02-05)
      Smart contracts (SC) are software codes which reside and run over a blockchain. The code can be written in different languages with the common purpose of implementing various kinds of transactions onto the hosting blockchain, ...
    • Smart Distributed Processing Technologies For Hedge Fund Management 

      Thayalakumar, Sinnathurai (2018-01-29)
      Distributed processing cluster design using commodity hardware and software has proven to be a technological breakthrough in the field of parallel and distributed computing. The research presented herein is the original ...
    • A Smart Game for Data Transmission and Energy Consumption in the Internet of Things 

      Abegunde, Jacob; Xiao, Hannan; Spring, William (2020-01-12)
      The current trend in developing smart technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) has motivated a lot of research interest in optimizing data transmission or minimizing energy consumption, but with little evidence of ...
    • Smart homes under siege: Assessing the robustness of physical security against wireless network attacks 

      Allen, Ashley; Mylonas, Alexios; Vidalis, Stilianos; Gritzalis, Dimitris (2024-04)
      Nowadays domestic smart security devices, such as smart locks, smart doorbells, and security cameras, are becoming increasingly popular with users, due to their ease of use, convenience, and declining prices. Unlike ...
    • Smart Tourism Challenges 

      Gretzel, Ulrike; Reino, Sofia; Kopera, Sebastian; Koo, Chulmo (2016-01-01)
      This paper defines smart tourism as tourism supported by integrated efforts at a destination to find innovative ways to collect and aggregate/harness data derived from physical infrastructure, social connections, ...
    • A Smart Wireless Car Ignition System for Vehicle Security 

      Haider, Arslan; Khan, Aamer Hayat; Denai, Mouloud (2017-09-19)
      The paper proposes a novel car ignition system to replace the traditional wired technology and enhance vehicle security. This new system uses wireless transmissions to start the engine and hence eliminates the ignition ...
    • Smarter working in social and health care : Professional perspectives on a new technology for risk appraisal with older people 

      Manthorpe, Jill; Kharicha, Kalpa; Goodman, Claire; Harari, Danielle; Swift, Cameron; Iliffe, Steve (2010-09)
      There is growing emphasis on prevention, personalisation and self-care or active citizenship in England. This paper reports on the Smarter Working in Social care & Health (SWISH) study of the development of an information ...
    • SmartHIV Manager: a web-based computer simulation system for better management of HIV services 

      Adeyemi, Shola; Demir, Eren; Yakutcan, Usame; Adeoti, Adekunle; Pascal Kengne, Andre; Gbenga Kayode, Ayodele; Aliyu, Ahmad; Idika, Nneoma; Isichei, Christian (2021-06-25)
      Background: Life-changing developments enabled people living with HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) to live a relatively normal life like the general population. However, there is ...
    • Smartphone Technology: Everyday prompts for those with prospective memory difficulties following brain injury 

      Ferguson, Scott (2018-03-05)
      BACKGROUND: Prospective memory difficulties are one of the most common deficits following acquired brain injury. The application of smartphones as a compensatory aid to these difficulties has shown promising results. This ...
    • Smartphones Adoption and Usage of 50+ Adults in the United Kingdom 

      Choudrie, Jyoti; Pheeraphuttharangkoon, Sutee; Ojiako, Uchenna (Routledge, 2017-11-03)